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Disinformation Expert: We Have No Common Sense of Facts

Clip: 11/13/2020 | 16m 36sVideo has Closed Captions

Renée DiResta joins the program.

Conspiracy theories and misinformation about coronavirus and the recent election are spreading like wildfire online. These are the sort of phenomena Renée DiResta has been studying for years. She is a disinformation expert and technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, and she speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what can happen when false narratives go viral.

11/13/2020

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Bruno Le Maire Discusses Current Events in Paris

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Clip: 11/13/2020 | 2m 50s | Bruno Le Maire joins the program. (2m 50s)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Discusses "Half of a Yellow Sun"

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Clip: 11/13/2020 | 2m 59s | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joins the program. (2m 59s)

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