I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.

And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.

We're making a new show.

Have a nice future.

I'm more have a nice future, question mark.

It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.

We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.

We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,

and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.

So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey everybody, it's Sam from The Verge Cast back after a little bit of a holiday break.

I hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

On this week's interview episode, we have Senior Porter Addy Robertson from The Verge.

She just wrote a great piece for us.

How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online.

There's an instruction manual for evaluating the information you see on the internet.

We're entering the 2020 election cycle.

There's going to be a lot of chaos, a lot of yelling, a lot of fighting, a lot of Russian

misinformation and propaganda.

And we really wanted to put something together that you can share with your friends or family.

You can read it yourself that just gives you a basic outline of how to evaluate a headline,

a meme, a video, a photo, and just come to a better determination of whether that is real

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