How to Fight for Truth in an Age of Disinformation

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with Lee McIntyre, author of On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy, available from MIT Press. McIntyre is Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, he has taught philosophy at Colgate University, Boston University, Simmons University, Tufts Experimental College, and Harvard Extension School. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to the program.
0:07.0	This is the Other People Show.
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0:52.1	So my guest today is Lee McIntyre.
0:56.1	He has a new book out called On Disinformation, How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy.
1:03.9	I mean, I've got a quotation in the book about this.
1:07.0	This one I think I can find.
1:10.7	Hannah Arendt said,
1:13.1	the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced
1:17.7	communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction true and false
1:22.6	no longer exists.
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