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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress.

I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting.

And I'm feel youwing election security get it.

Miles, where have you been in studio to talk about the work you've been doing for our

sister podcast, LifeKit? A brother podcast, whatever you want to put it.

Our sibling podcast. Sibling podcast. Yeah, yeah. So this is basically NPR teaches you how to do

stuff, and I have been helping people walk through the democratic process in a bunch of different

ways. We have one on how to vote, one on how to run for office at the local level, and then the

one we're talking about today, which is how to spot misinformation, which is obviously a pretty

hot issue right now. Okay, so let's just talk about and define misinformation. For the purposes of

the podcast episode you did, how did you define misinformation? I think it gets really too specific.

We focus so much on 2016 and the Russian interference effort before that election, right? And that's

part of it. There is misinformation during election seasons about candidates on both sides,

which is like weaponized. Exactly. Which basically like this person said this or this person feels

this way about this thing and either didn't happen or it's focusing too much on it without

giving context, things like that. So Miles, tell us about some of the misinformation campaigns you

came across in your reporting. There's a whole misinformation campaign every election day around

when election day is, how you can vote, what you need to bring. There will be people online in 2020.

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