The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Trey talks with author Sasha Issenberg about his new book The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age, in which he talks about the left's campaign strategies to combat "disinformation" and "misinformation." Topics Trey and Sasha Cover Include - why the left is primarily interested in disinformation - the campaign strategies of Democrats online - the focus on engagement in political persuasion - how overseas democracies have faced similar disinformation strategies - Brazilian cautions for some leftwing approaches to disinformation Follow Sasha on X, and check out The Lie Detectives The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.0	I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University.
1:21.3	And today, I'm joined by Sasha Eisenberg, who is the author of The Lie Detectors in Search of a Playbook for Winning
1:30.6	Elections in the Disinformation Age.
1:33.2	Sasha is also the author of other books, including the Victory Lab.
1:37.0	He's also been a correspondent for a number of newspapers, including New York and the New York Times
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1:46.8	a professor at UCLA in the Department of Political Science. Sasha, welcome to the politics guys.
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