My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

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And welcome

back to our next

situational report, our next sit rep

in this season where we're discussing

how to master information. Now, I want to share

something with you that is incredibly powerful to me. We are all in the middle of an election right

now. We're in the middle of a global crisis. We're in the middle of an economic crisis.

And we see all of this information constantly flooding us from all around. You see it on TV, it pops up on your

notifications, your grandparents, your friends, your parents are forwarding it to you via email,

and of course all of your friends are talking about what's happening in the conventions,

what's happening in the headlines, who's the new vice president pick, what's the current trend going on in Twitter?

You can't escape information. And you especially can't escape information when it comes through

social circles. Social media circles, obviously, like your Facebook, your Twitter, your

LinkedIn, et cetera, but also social circles, the traditional

social circles, where it's just friends and friends, neighbors, friends of neighbors, family, friends,

everybody seems to have something to say. Now, there was a recent study done that looked into

why fake news specifically spreads so easily.

Now, the study was built around social media,

but I found that it was so powerful because social media is really just an automated

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