How did “disinformation” become the all-purpose explanation for American politics? In this eye-opening conversation, journalist Jacob Siegel reveals how a century-old progressive vision of expert rule evolved into today’s censorship-industrial complex — from Woodrow Wilson’s propaganda machine to the Hunter Biden laptop suppression and beyond. Siegel, author of the new book The Information State, traces the hidden history of information control and explains how governments and tech platforms now shape what we see, say, and believe.

CHAPTERS:
(00:00 Introduction)
(00:48 Discovering Disinformation Everywhere in 2016)
(04:00 Misinformation, Disinformation & Malinformation Explained)
(08:23 The Hamilton 68 Censorship Scandal)
(12:15 The Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression)
(18:45 The Progressive Origins: Woodrow Wilson to the Creel Committee)
(35:00 What Should Replace the Information State?)
(41:10 Rebuilding Borders on the Internet)
(45:59 Is the Censorship Apparatus Still a Threat?)

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