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Megyn Kelly highlights some segments from The Megyn Kelly Show this week, including Victor Davis Hanson on Christians and Israel, Sage Steele on her scripted ESPN Biden interview (and Keith Olbermann, Stu Burguiere and Dave Marcus on attacks on women in sports, and Allie Beth Stuckey and Britt Mayer on sadness in our culture.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.

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Samantha Bradshaw is a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project and a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. She’s been tracking the phenomenon of political manipulation through social media.

You can find Samantha on Twitter at @sbradshaww.

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.

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Topics

:53 - What is a bot?

2:53 - When computational propaganda began

3:53 - Changes in bot tactics since 2016

5:53 - Using bots for content creation

7:28 - WhatsApp and the upcoming Indian election

9:23 - Trends in computational propaganda

10:53 - How bots integrate into platforms

13:23 - Responsibilities of platforms to remove fake accounts

14:53 - The role of governments in media manipulation

18:18 - Fake news and selecting news that aligns with your beliefs

19:53 - Are platforms getting better or worse?

21:33 - Samantha's personal internet habits

23:03 - Sentiment around tracking in the UK vs the US

24:23 - The Mueller report and US midterms

29:18 - Canadian elections

30:18 - 2020 US elections

30:53 - Deepfakes

31:48 - Optimistic thoughts for the future

33:08 - How to help against computational propaganda