The evolution of fake news
1 big thing
Axios
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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Sly Price Riser, we praise you. |
| 0:03.4 | Your commitment to raising the bar is something to look up too. |
| 0:06.4 | When the world said this mobile contract's price is high enough, |
| 0:10.0 | you said, |
| 0:11.0 | No, go higher. |
| 0:12.8 | Yeah, cheers to the bad mobile contracts out there for showing us how to make a good one. |
| 0:18.1 | One that would rather raise your data, not your prices. |
| 0:21.2 | Go to gift gaff. Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, September 29. I'm Naila Boodoo. |
| 0:39.0 | Here's how we're making you smarter today. life after Roe versus Wade. |
| 0:43.6 | And today's one big thing is the future of fake news. |
| 0:48.6 | But first, some situational awareness. |
| 0:52.3 | We've reached a grim milestone in the global death toll from the |
| 0:55.4 | coronavirus. One million people. If that wasn't bad enough, the World Health |
| 1:00.2 | Organization's Dr. Mike Ryan is warning the toll could reach 2 million. |
| 1:06.8 | It's certainly unimaginable but it's not impossible because if we look at losing a million people in nine months and then we just look at |
| 1:15.8 | the realities of getting vaccine out there in the next nine months it's a big task |
| 1:20.8 | for everyone involved the real is, are we prepared collectively to do what it takes to avoid that number? Forget pots spreading misinformation and 20 journalists are being targeted in sophisticated operations |
| 1:45.2 | to amplify fake news. |
| 1:47.5 | Actually, this is media reporter Sarah Fisher has been covering this and she's with us now. |
| 1:51.5 | So if bots are not how |
| 1:53.7 | disinformation is being spread, how specifically are journalists being |
| 1:57.8 | targeted and we saw the Washington Post being targeted last week? |
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