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That Trippi Show

The scariest misinformation truths you'll ever hear

That Trippi Show

Joe Trippi

News, Government, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This might be the scariest fact we've ever seen about social media. You know it's bad, but this bad? And it explains a lot about how crazy political discussions have gotten online. 0.1% of users? No really. The amount of disinformation is staggering. And what does it do to our brains? Plus: What people miss when Trump lies. When we roll our eyes, we miss the point. And - despite the challenges in front of us - why is Joe optimistic about how we can break out of the funhouse? Read "Inside the funhouse mirror factory" here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X24001313 Read the Atlantic article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/?gift=bcL26f46jRxbKrUp1kTCRFgu6En8nVf7xwPsSYEqCiU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share And visit getrealnews.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6

Hey everybody, it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to That Trippy show with Alex Ashlow.

0:44.3

This week, we are careening towards renaming the Gulf of Mexico to stop drug trafficking.

0:52.3

Annexing Canada?

0:57.6

So, yeah, we're less than two weeks away from Trump taking over and the press can't stop soaking up every word of his BS and chaos, even the obvious

1:07.8

misinformation that he's spewing. But it goes a lot deeper than that. We'll talk about a

1:15.1

study that shows just how bad the misinformation problem on social media is. Alex, where should

1:22.8

we get started? You know, I'm trying to think over the years how many times I have gotten like a red

1:29.7

alert, holy shit, you got to read this thing from you. And you share a lot of stuff. You're actually,

1:36.6

if not that prone to hyperbole. I think the two things that you've ever shared to me that you're

1:42.3

like, stop what you're doing and read it were one the nexus which everyone needs to read absolutely and and two was this where you were like

1:50.8

dude this is really scary because it really is and it it kind of uh i don't want to say kind of like

1:59.7

it didn't seem that scary because it's a scientific journal

2:02.9

article and then you start reading and you're like it's it's actually scarier because it's a

2:07.3

scientific journal article yeah because it's it's in current opinion in psychology uh which is

2:14.1

you know the thing is, we get into this.

2:20.5

You know, everybody's out there talking about, geez, you know, the Democratic Party,

2:24.4

it's got to get its message.

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