Lies, smears and scams plaguing social media; Stelter: Trump is 'Mr. Misinformation'; Pro-Trump media claims caravan is a threat; The power of the caravan pictures; Khashoggi's WashPost editor pushes for answers; How media business models fuel polarizatio

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🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Lies, smears and scams plaguing social media; Stelter: Trump is 'Mr. Misinformation'; Pro-Trump media claims caravan is a threat; The power of the caravan pictures; Khashoggi's WashPost editor pushes for answers; How media business models fuel polarization; Bernstein: Trump uses lies to push policiesTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, 16 days till the midterms. I'm Brian Stelter and this is reliable sources. Our weekly
0:07.2	look at the story behind the story of how the media really works, how the news gets made, now all of us can help make it better.
0:15.4	This hour as the Saudi diplomatic crisis deepens, Jamal Koshoji's editor Karen
0:20.6	Attia will join me live.
0:23.0	Lots to talk about with her.
0:24.6	Plus, as you've probably been seeing,
0:26.3	President Trump is parroting Fox News.
0:29.2	But what should journalists do when he fear-mongers
0:31.5	about migrant caravans.
0:33.8	And everything we're talking about this hour
0:35.4	ties together.
0:36.2	It's all about the war on truth.
0:38.0	So who better than Carl Bernstein?
0:40.1	He'll be here at the end of the hour
0:41.6	to discuss how all these stories connect.
0:45.2	But first, a topic you need to know about, midterm misinformation.
0:50.5	It was two years ago this month. I remember it pretty fondly.
0:53.0	It was October 2016.
0:55.0	It was Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump vying for the presidency.
0:58.0	And I tried to sound an alarm about fake news.
1:01.0	Yes, fake news. No, not Trump's kind. I was talking about
1:04.8	these actually made-up stories, the ones that were plaguing your Facebook feed
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