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I'm Miles Parks.

I cover voting and misinformation and 2021 was a year that was defined by misinformation.

It started with election denial and then followed through the summer as tens of millions of Americans have continued to resist calls from health officials to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

So what will the new year bring?

I wanted to hear an answer from an expert in the field.

So joining us now is Whitney Phillips.

She's an assistant professor at Syracuse University and an author of a number of books about the information landscape in America.

Hi Whitney.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

The way I've thought about misinformation this year especially has kind of been in two, two buckets.

There's been the election bucket, the January 6th bucket.

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