Fake News

Topics covered in this one:

• Podcasting as writing
• What is real? What can we trust?
• Covid news, election controversies
• The Social Dilemma and our individual realities
• Fake news masquerades generic ideas as facts
• Privacy vs vulnerability
• The Great Hack and weaponizing data
• We must be better at discerning information
• The psychology of conspiracy theories
• Vigilance against corruption
• Reality is satire
• The continued drama of the presidential election
• The current COVID lockdown
• Failures in journalism
• Psychology of isolation and online life
• Sympathies and responsibilities
• Russian hackers and the Mueller report
• The psychology of belief
• 9/11 as a meme
• The Overton window
• Big tech as nanny state
• Jonathan Haidt and the Coddling of the American Mind
• Black Lives Matter as a psy op
• The difficulty of dialogue in this world