I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is the Sunday story, where we go beyond the news of the day to bring you one big story.

So I've been going on some dates. Now, not a lot, but a little bit.

And dating is a fascinating activity.

You know, you meet people.

You wouldn't have otherwise met.

And they say something you might not expect.

One guy believe vaccines cause autism. You know, that's been debunked multiple times, but, you know, I didn't press it. And then he also said that Kamala Harris isn't black. Well, she did go to Howard and, you know, her dad is black, but I let that go.

Another one had some interesting theories about the shape of the earth. This was after a nice time.

I really enjoyed this person. And so when they mentioned this, I said, oh,

oh, no, oh no. But I wasn't ultimately deterred. I just, I just said, you know, look, people think

different things. People think different things. And of course, this isn't just about, you know, conversations over a glass of wine or a margarita with somebody who you're just talking to, we're trying to have some fun with. Some of these ideas have also reached the highest levels of the White House and are reshaping our country and our world.

So how did we get here, like to this moment where so much quote unquote news isn't based in the truth?

That's what we're going to explore today in a segment from Engines of

outrage, a new mini-series from the Landslide podcast, distributed by the NPR Network, and

hosted by reporter Ben Bradford. Here's Ben.

It used to be even just a few decades ago that Americans largely used and trusted the same new sources.

Now, the way we get basic facts about the world is polarized.

We are increasingly split into separate bubbles, absorbing different information that paints conflicting pictures of the same events.

In the introduction to the series, he goes on to explain that our information ecosystem

divides into two distinct sides, conservative and progressive.

And these bubbles follow different rules.

Only in one of these media bubbles do a huge portion of voters consistently believe a presidential election was stolen.

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