Trey talks with author Sasha Issenberg about his new book The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age, in which he talks about the left's campaign strategies to combat "disinformation" and "misinformation."
Topics Trey and Sasha Cover Include
- why the left is primarily interested in disinformation
- the campaign strategies of Democrats online
- the focus on engagement in political persuasion
- how overseas democracies have faced similar disinformation strategies
- Brazilian cautions for some leftwing approaches to disinformation
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