Hi everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Lauren Good, a senior writer at Wired, and I'm joined remotely, as always, by my co-host, Wired Senior Editor, Michael Colore.

Hello, hello. Hello. How is working from home treating you this week?

It's good. We got a bunch of plants. So now I have,

I'm surrounded by succulents. It's, uh, improve the mood. Have you also started baking sourdough bread

and doing peloton exercises? Um, are you projecting? No, just wondering perhaps if we've both

become work fromhome cliches.

All right. Well, I feel lucky to be working from home because it has been a dire week in unemployment numbers once again.

And I think it's going to be a long time before we see our way out of this.

This week, though, we are talking about something else.

We're joined by Wired Politics Writer Gilad Edelman, his first time on Gadget Lab.

Thanks for joining us.

Very excited to be here.

I'll be honest.

We originally planned this week's show to be about mail-in voting.

It's an important topic to talk about right now, and it's going to be happening

in the coming months. And we are still going to talk about that today. But then Twitter happened.

Or should I say the president on Twitter happened? Or should I say Twitter added a fact check label

to a couple of the president's tweets, which also happened to be

about mail and voting.

Okay, now this has turned into a political firestorm, and it has forced a much bigger conversation

about the role that tech platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Google play in the dissemination

of information.

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