From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)
5/14/20261 hr 18 min
Journalist and author Ashley Rindsberg returns to The Michael Shermer Show for a wide-ranging conversation about the new media world: influencers with audiences larger than cable networks, conspiracy theories built for engagement, and the collapse of trust that followed COVID, censorship, and years of institutional overreach.
Ashley Rindsberg is an investigative journalist and author focused on digital information platforms. He is the founder and editor of NPOV, which looks at how knowledge platforms like Wikipedia are used to distort information and seed damaging narratives online. He is the author of The Gray Lady Winked, an expose on The New York Times, and serves as Editor-at-Large at Pirate Wires, a leading tech, politics, and culture outlet.
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Ashley Rindsberg· Guest1:04
Candace, I think she believes in the idea that you believe in what is useful to you. Truth is not what matters, particularly on the right, which is a really strange thing to see. They've embraced this kind of postmodern conception of truth, which is something that's constructed by power. And I think we've all been fed this idea for so long now that truth is a construct. My warning about this kind of thing, which I wrote in my book, was other people are gonna notice. They're going to see that this is an effective strategy