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The episode discusses the challenges of detecting disinformation and the implications of misinformation in politics and intelligence.

Talk Back to Me Just like a bad toupee, we can fool ourselves into thinking that we are good at detecting disinformation. But like propaganda, a good piece of fake hair is difficult to detect. If taken to extremes, our attempts at discerning truth from manipulations can either lead to blissful ignorance, or monomania. While Disinformation is a dirty word in the realm of politics, it has a more specific meaning in the Intelligence Community. While pundits and politicians toss it around a...

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