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The Godfather of Fake News
FromPower Corrupts
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Christopher Blair has been called the Godfather of Fake News. He's an American troll. And whether you realized it or not, you've probably unknowingly read a fake news article that he's written, cooked up on his computer in rural Maine. So we traveled to Maine to meet him, to understand how one man makes a living by deceiving gullible people on Facebook — and the effect that his trolling has on democracy. ---- Power Corrupts is written and narrated by Brian Klaas. The executive producer and sound editor is George McDonagh.
Released:
Mar 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (47)
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