We all know politicians lie. But how do they get away with it? One surprising reason is because their supporters don't hold it against them. In fact, the sometimes like it. In this week's episode of UnSpun, DrSturg looks at the research on political truth. Whether a lie is a problem depends on a lot of things: the emotions of the listener, the context it's said in and even if the listener just wishes the lie were true.

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What happens when censorship stops looking like censorship?

In this episode of UnSpun journal club, DrSturg looks at the book The New Censorship: How the War on the Media Is Taking Us Down, which looks at how populist authoritains harm journalism without controlling the press by using society's norms against it. These leaders are all over the world, but have in common a view of a society splot between “the people” and “the elites.” Journalists who don't support the leader are the enemy. The core freedom isn't freedom of speech. It is whether the public still has a meaningful right to know. This is part 2 of a journal club review of this book.

Episode cover image is from Wikimedia Commons by user Mobilus In Mobili

LINKS

The book

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-New-Censorship/Ayala-Panievsky/9781804441114

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Detecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake News

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Everyone wants your attention. News organizations want it. Politicians want it. Social media platforms want it. And increasingly, AI systems stand between you and the information you’re looking for.

But attention is finite.

In this episode of UnSpun, Amanda Sturgill examines the attention economy and what decades of research can tell us about who gets our attention—and what they can do with it for good and for evil.

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Herb Simon's original paper

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Detecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake News

We are #AltGov: Inside the Resistance on Social Media