Jon Talks Misinformation With Ev Williams and Dr. Joan Donovan
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Central
4.5 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Well, Jon has gone and stepped in it again! So this week, along with writers Jay Jurden and Kris Acimovic, Jon is joined by Harvard professor and misinformation expert Dr. Joan Donovan to discuss RoganGate and how to combat misinformation. Later, Jon speaks with Ev Williams, CEO of Medium. Who also happens to be the confounder of Twitter, the website where misinformation goes to superspread alongside Wordle scores.
CREDITS
Hosted by: Jon Stewart
Featuring, in order of appearance: Kris Acimovic, Jay Jurden, Dr. Joan Donovan, Ev Williams, Alexa Loftus
Executive Produced by Jon Stewart, Brinda Adhikari, James Dixon, Chris McShane, and Richard Plepler.
Lead Producer: Sophie Erickson
Producers: Caity Gray, Robby Slowik
Assoc. Producer: Andrea Betanzos
Sound Designer & Audio Engineer: Miguel Carrascal
Senior Digital Producer: Kwame Opam
Digital Coordinator: Norma Hernandez
Supervising Producer: Lorrie Baranek
Head Writer: Kris Acimovic
Elements: Kenneth Hull, Daniella Philipson
Talent: Brittany Mehmedovic, Haley Denzak
Research: Susan Helvenston, Andy Crystal, Anne Bennett, Deniz Çam, Harjyot Ron Singh
Theme Music by: Gary Clark Jr.
The Problem with Jon Stewart podcast is an Apple TV+ podcast produced by Busboy Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | We're ready to do this thing. |
| 0:01.6 | Should I do I have to wait or not? We're good. |
| 0:04.3 | Already rolling. Here we go. Here we go. |
| 0:06.7 | Hello everybody and welcome to the Promethound Story podcast where joining you live, Jay |
| 0:32.5 | Jordan and Chris, you know, last week we did a podcast as well. I don't even know this. |
| 0:38.0 | We do this every week now. We do. We do do it every week. It's required. |
| 0:42.7 | Jay Jordan was on the podcast last week. I was. Along with Chelsea Devontes, yes, who was our |
| 0:49.1 | head writer. And now we have our new head writer, Chris. That's right. That's right. |
| 0:54.4 | That's right. The podcast last week was so crazy. We had to change headwriters. |
| 0:59.9 | We had to switch. She was like, I'm leaving. I'm done with this. |
| 1:03.7 | Chelsea, you know what? I'm out of this joint. I am out of here. |
| 1:07.4 | She heard the fallout and she said, you know what? Back to California. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm going to miss that woman dearly, but Chris, we're delighted to have you step up. |
| 1:16.0 | And the reason Chris, you know, we have obviously there's a few writers on the show, but Chris, |
| 1:21.2 | we elevated because of her fierce disciplinarian nature. |
| 1:25.5 | She is. We already have summer reading from Chris. We already have homework. |
| 1:31.1 | It's the physical intimidation for me. It's not even the way that she forces. |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah, John's like, if we're going to bring someone up, she's got to be just a huge bitch. |
| 1:39.6 | And I was there. It was an easy call. So we're very excited, Chris. And delighted as we move forward. |
| 1:48.8 | Solid podcast today. We're going to be talking about misinformation, which I'm not sure if it's |
| 1:54.0 | a problem or not. I haven't heard much about it recently. But first we're going to talk about |
| 1:57.2 | last week's episode, which was a big big big fuck. |
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