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Welcome to Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics.

I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired.

Since the October 7th massacre in Israel, a lot has happened.

There's a devastating war in Gaza, heightened Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the U.S.,

and protests have erupted on college campuses across the country.

Over the last few weeks, these protests have become the largest student movement in the U.S.

in decades.

And, of course, disinformation and conspiracies on these issues have been everywhere.

So today on the show, we're going to talk about how student journalists are covering

the protests and dealing with this disinformation and how foreign

actors are exploiting the dissent. Joining me today are two reporters from the Wired Politics

Desk, Vittoria Elliott and McKenna Kelly. They've spent the last few days talking to student

journalists from around the country. How's it going? Hey there. Hello, hello. Let's talk about

why you both wanted to talk to student journalists for

this episode and your upcoming story on Wired.com about disinformation in these protests. What's

specifically about them and their situations made them the perfect people to learn from and understand

what's been happening on the ground here? Sure. So I think the big thing to note is that these

student journalists have been covering their campus every day.

Right. Not just for this semester, but last semester. And for many of them, you know, years and years. Local journalism. We love it. Before. And so they know these people. They know the administrators. They understand how the system works. And that's why they become such a important resource, like what we saw with WKCR and all of these.

Like Columbia Student Radio.

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