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We chat a little bit about Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and ways you can decolonize Thanksgiving. We also talk about the history of disinformation in Russia, the inside story of Facebook 2016ish to now, and how false news spreads (Spoiler: it’s through people more than robots).

Show Notes

• The Future Is Indigenous: Decolonizing Thanksgiving (Truthout)
• Fresh Air: Inside The Russian Disinformation Playbook: Exploit Tension, Sow Chaos (NPR)
• Trump’s Lies Are a Virus, and News Organizations Are the Host (The Atlantic)
• Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (New York Times)
• The spread of true and false news online (Science Magazine)
• SBOE Gets Schooled on Women: State Board of Education reverses decision to remove Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from curriculum (Austin Chronicle)