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    <em>Social Distance</em>: Are These Tweets Real?

    McKay Coppins discusses pandemic-era propaganda on the podcast with Katherine Wells and James Hamblin.
    by Kevin Townsend Apr 15, 2020 5 minutes

    Staff writer James Hamblin has been getting a lot of strange replies on social media. He recently wrote about hydroxychloroquine, the drug President Donald Trump has touted as a treatment for COVID-19, and it seems the Twitter trolls have come for him.

    After reporting on the “disinformation architecture” aimed at helping Trump get reelected, staff writer McKay Coppins wrote about how that set of tools has been put to use during the pandemic. He joins Hamblin and executive producer Katherine Wells on the podcast Social Distance to talk about modern propaganda and the history of disinformation.

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