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The New Yorker’s Head of Fact Checking on Our Post-Truth Era
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:42:40
Publish Date: 2025-09-11 00:08:00
Description:

Fergus McIntosh, the head research editor at The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how the magazine is approaching fact -checking in the second Trump era. They talk about how the spread of disinformation and deepfakes has changed the work of verifying facts; why Trump has been more aggressive, in his second term, about restricting the release of government data; and what makes his particular style of spreading falsehoods so difficult to counter.

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