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Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Comedian J-L Cauvin and Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and Author Richard Stengel join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." Disinformation, what's real and what's not? Conspiracies run rampant these days. And rebutting them could perpetuate them even further. First up on the pod is a very special guest, one that some would claim, spreads disinformation every day. Then, Stengel joins to discuss his latest book, Information Wars, and introduces us to the term "infodemic."

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0:00.0	I'm Michael Isgoth, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.
0:03.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
0:05.3	And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.
0:09.9	And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,
0:14.1	tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.
0:20.0	Fake news and disinformation.
0:22.8	There are plagues that are infecting our body politic every bit as much as
0:26.8	COVID-19 is infecting our bodies. As the former Under Secretary of State for Public
0:32.4	Diplomacy, Rich Stangle was in charge of the U.S. government's efforts to combat disinformation.
0:38.2	We'll talk to him about how foreign adversaries are manipulating our news feeds about the virus.
0:43.7	And we'll also talk to a special surprise guest who knows more about fake news than anybody
0:50.2	on this episode of SkullDuggery.
0:57.2	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well, I'm not a
1:02.8	crop. I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions
1:08.4	still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have
1:14.8	sexual relations with that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people
1:22.6	with the truth and nothing else.
1:30.6	I'm Michael Isigov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:34.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Manettator and Chief of Yahoo News.
1:36.8	You know, we talked so much about disinformation during the 2016 election and it's aftermath
1:43.5	about how the Russians had manipulated social media, pumping out all these
1:49.0	phony stories designed to inflame the electorate. But it's really remarkable that now in the COVID
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