Updated subscriber totals, exploring echo chambers, managing the meta-leash, the opt-in nature of truth and practicing good mental hygiene: Ped & Tom get into, under, and all up in the grill of everyone’s favorite internet sensation, Fake News.

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Meta Disclaimers, Before-we-Beginners [00:00]

• The President, the Pope and Mark Zuckerberg walk into a bar
• And the 2016 Oxford Word of the Year is…
• Tom will blow this bridge up if he has to

What is “Fake News?” [06:13]

• Try an echo chamber on for size
• Craig Silverman’s landmark analysis
• This Video Will Make you Angry

Why is it a problem for the modern human mind? [17:57]

• Be thankful Tom pulled on the meta-leash, dear listener
• Shakespeare distinguishes thing-value from human-value
• Not everyone is required to see Santa
• #theresAnXKCDForThat

How do we protect ourselves from it? [39:04]

• Your mind’s instruction manual (404: Page Not Found)
• #theresAnXCKDForThatToo
• A practical, psychology-based take on the science of karma
• …but unconditional love is better [citation needed]

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)