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The Gist

Misinformation: Hard To Combat, Slippery To Define

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

An interview with Dr. Dannagal G. Young, author of Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation. Plus, sorting out who fired rockets, or dropped bombs, on or near a hospital in Gaza.  Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara  Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com  To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/  Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, October 18th, 2023, from Peachfish Productions.

0:07.4

It's the justime, Mike Pesca.

0:09.9

Twitter has become awful, is the sort of kids are cuddled these days, they don't make

0:14.5

them like they used to type of observation, which is at once irrefutable and timeless.

0:19.9

Every generation could lob the complaint about their successors and be right and also

0:23.9

totally uninsightful.

0:26.2

It's become awful.

0:27.5

I mean, before Elon Musk took over, all the Twitter rottie did was badmouth Twitter.

0:32.7

Okay, now it's a more whole body activity.

0:36.1

Twitter has become ex and everyone feels free to talk shit about their ex.

0:39.8

But I have to say, I didn't mind Twitter through the first seven or so days of the Israel

0:46.7

Hamas war.

0:48.9

But in the last 24 hours, it has been nothing but a fountain of the latest word de jour

0:56.0

disinformation.

0:57.0

And sure, there were false images from obvious or at least obvious to me, seeming accounts

1:03.3

beforehand.

1:05.0

And that's when Twitter's algorithm encounters my user mental algorithm.

1:11.5

And either discernment is properly engaged or the brain becomes soft mush and credulous

1:16.0

or overcorrects into a place of impenetrable incredulity.

1:19.4

In any case, I did not believe just any random account saying that this bomb or that video

1:25.7

or that celebration was the real artifact, but people I trust had had it.

1:30.8

And this was even before the events of the last 24 hours.

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