I'm Travis View and this is trickle down a podcast about what happens when bad ideas flow from the top

With me are Julian Field in Jake Rod Kattanski

episode 20 retrospective Episode 20, retrospective.

This is the last episode of this season, trickle down.

So for this one, I'm going to ask you, dearly, This is the last episode of this season of Tickledown.

So for this one, I'm going to ask you, dear listener, to permit me a self-indulgent one.

So instead of covering a single topic, like I usually do, I'm going to talk a bit about the

broad reason why I want to do a series about misinformation,

disinformation that comes from high authority sources.

And I'm going to talk about how I chose topics I did cover and also talk about like the topics I didn't cover and sort of like

empty the chamber there and we're also gonna do a few fascinating listener

stories which I really enjoy they put out a call for listener stories on

Twitter and in our discord. We got some good ones. You're emptying the

chamber pot? Entering the chamber pot, yeah, that's what I'm doing.

Yeah, once you fire that final bullet there will be no misinformation left in the world and our jobs will ostensibly be done.

Oh, good, good. I was hoping to retire.

Can't wait to discuss Travis View's secretly anti-capitalist series.

You know, yeah, so there's this criticism you sometimes hear about like anti misinformation or like disinformation reporting

which is that it's not really intended to identify falsehoods or you know

find the negative impacts of falsehoods as are spread throughout the internet.

But rather, the criticism goes, that is designed to enforce a particular narrative,

a narrative that happens to align with the interests of people who already have a lot of money, power, and

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