in the world of COVID-19, misinformation runs rampant. from international interference to at-home video productions, the internet hosts misinformation and spreads it similarly to a disease. guest clint watts discusses this misinformation: what is it? where is it coming from? how can we spot it, and know what to truly believe? tom and rp cover the top pandemic conspiracy theories, and get to the bottom of knowing if a news source is legitimate. clint watts is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Non-Resident Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. he is also a national security contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. clint is the author of the book Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News.

tom scott is chairman & co-founder of the nantucket project. rp eddy was the architect of the Clinton administration’s pandemic response framework and the United Nations response to the global AIDS epidemic & is CEO of global intelligence firm Ergo.

rp is co-author of the best-selling award-winning book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes with Richard A. Clarke, Former National Security Council counterterrorism adviser.