Truth or Disinformation?: Barbara McQuade
February 13th, 2025
”To love America is to love the truth.”
We discuss that Americans should prize truth over tribe. A lot of disinformation is hiding behind the First Amendment – using the right to free speech to tell lies. The muddy media and information ecosystem is turning us against our neighbors.
Barbara McQuade is a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, co-host of the podcast #SistersinLaw, and a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Her first book is Attack From Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.
Your civic action toolkit recommendations from Barb are:
Meet people in real life because when we know them it’s harder to vilify them.
Get accurate election-related information from your secretary of state’s office.
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Credits:
Host: Mila Atmos
Guest: Barbara McQuade
Executive Producer: Mila Atmos
Producer: Zack Travis