BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire
Preview: 10/1/2025 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Facing a gripping hypothetical dilemma, a panel of experts reckons with social media and truth.
Facing a gripping hypothetical dilemma—disinformation about a controversial school board decision spreading rapidly on social media—a panel of experts grapples with what is true, and what truth even means today. Watch the preview for BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire.
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Funding for this program was provided in part by grants from The Rosalind P. Walter Foundation and by a grant from Anne Ray Foundation and by contributions from viewers like you. Thank you. Location furnished by The New York Historical.
BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire
Preview: 10/1/2025 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Facing a gripping hypothetical dilemma—disinformation about a controversial school board decision spreading rapidly on social media—a panel of experts grapples with what is true, and what truth even means today. Watch the preview for BREAKING the DEADLOCK: Truth Under Fire.
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It's a video released 15 minutes ago on social media.
A voice yells out, bro, they're burning the Ten Commandments!
Has anybody actually proven that this video is real?
As long as I have all these followers, I'm going to be broadcasting like mad.
If it's cooking we can't stop it from cooking.
I don't trust technology.
I want a human being to tell me that they saw it.
500,000 views.
It's a parent's nightmare.
And you've got national politics involved.
State politics.
I didn't get to be where I am, but I just jumpin because somebody yelled at me.
We have not caused this.
Whoever did it did a horrendous thing that has divided our community.
You're going to get a lot of blowback when the truth comes out.
We would all do a little bit good to reach over and actually try to understand where they're coming from.
But it's the community and a country's opportunity to show forgiveness.
Who do you take yourself to be?
What kind of country do you want?
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