How to Talk Your Uncle Out of QAnon this Thanksgiving

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Beth Goldberg joins Offline to discuss her work at Jigsaw, the misinformation-tackling team at Google that’s been called “the Internet’s justice league.” Goldberg walks Jon through the dos and don’ts of drawing your Q Anon cousins, election-denying uncles, and vaccine-skeptic grandmas out of their conspiracy rabbit holes this Thanksgiving. By pre-bunking, seeding doubt, and listening with compassion, together we can hash it all out.

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0:00.0	The crooked store just launched a bunch of new merch inspired by your favorite crooked media podcasts reminding you to unplug, reconnect, and get festive.
0:07.4	Some of the new items include a nog save America mug.
0:11.8	Nice.
0:12.3	Yeah, that's right.
0:13.3	You listen to Podsave America, you volunteer for the Road Save America, but maybe what was needed all along to save America was a gnog.
0:19.3	It was not a gnog.
0:20.4	There's also a log off ornament.
0:22.3	It's great.
0:22.8	I love this.
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0:25.1	I don't know how to wish.
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0:33.6	A true classic Christmas scene.
0:35.4	It's only screen and site is being burnt to a crisp.
0:39.3	We already have this on our tree because our trees already been decorated.
0:42.0	Yeah, okay, well, we'll talk about, we'll talk about this.
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1:11.8	You know, very last sort of tactic I've seen work really well is we can help people find alternative communities, right?
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