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<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>Last week, host Brian Reed interviewed former MAGA influencer and the mother of one of Elon Musk&rsquo;s children, Ashley St. Clair, in front of a live audience in New York. After they walked off stage, St. Clair laid into Brian over the questions he asked. She then demanded that we not release the interview publicly and asked to speak to our lawyers.</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>Here is that interview, uncut.</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>In it, St. Clair talks to Brian about her la

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>Viktor Orb&aacute;n&rsquo;s authoritarian grip on Hungary became a model for the American right. He hollowed out the country&rsquo;s democracy and turned much of the media into a government megaphone. Then a small newsroom called <a href=&#34;https://www.direkt36.hu/en/&#34;>Direkt36</a> exposed a <a href=&#34;https://www.direkt36.hu/en/titkosszolgalati-nyomasra-tortent-hazkutatas-a-tiszat-segito-informatikusoknal-aztan-kibukott-egy-gyanus-muvelet-a-part-ellen/&#34;>plot</a>

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>While we&rsquo;re heads down working on a bunch of great new episodes, we&rsquo;re sharing the first episode of the new season of Drilled.</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>In it, award-winning climate journalist Amy Westervelt exposes how Republican corn ethanol mogul Bruce Rastetter sold &#34;sustainable aviation fuel&#34; to world leaders from North Dakota to Brazil. The problem is, his &ldquo;clean energy&rdquo; project does nothing to help climate change.&nbsp;</p> <p dir=&#34;l

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>The Freedom of the Press Foundation just filed an ethics complaint against Florida Judge Jeffrey Kuntz, who has been nominated by President Trump for a lifetime federal court appointment. They want him stripped of his gavel and his law license.</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>Why? Judge Kuntz was one of the judges who ruled in Trump&rsquo;s favor in his peculiar defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize board. The Freedom of the Press Foundation claims the judge handed Trump th

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>Like millions of others, Gordon Pennycook&rsquo;s older brother has leapt down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, and Gordon says he&rsquo;s tried to change his brother&rsquo;s mind, without success. Which tracks, if you&rsquo;ve ever debated a conspiracy theorist &mdash; it can feel impossible to pull them back to reality.&nbsp;</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>If anyone was qualified to convince his brother, though, it&rsquo;s Gordon, who&rsquo;s a psychology professor at Cor

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>According to the fact-checking company NewsGuard, Claude has been a very reliable and accurate chatbot. But in the last month or so, users have started complaining that it seemed to be getting slower, stupider, and less trustworthy. So NewsGuard AI analyst Isis Blachez ran a test on Claude, to see if it is actually getting worse. And running this test revealed a whole new iteration of Russian disinformation campaigns, designed for the AI-era, that are evolving by the second

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>The first episode of a special series from <em>On The Media</em>&rsquo;s Micah Loewinger about how a seemingly benign and important agency, FEMA, has become the subject of some of the wildest conspiracy theories.</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) is supposed to keep Americans safe from wildfires, hurricanes, and nuclear disasters. So why has it become so profoundly distrusted and maligned, to the point that President Trump has now threat

<p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>In recent days, we learned that R&uuml;meysa &Ouml;zt&uuml;rk, the Tufts University grad student who was snatched off the street by masked ICE agents last year and locked up for more than a month, has had enough of America, and moved home to Turkey. The U.S. government had continued to threaten her with legal proceedings and deportation, even after releasing her from detention.&nbsp;</p> <p dir=&#34;ltr&#34;>Dr. &Ouml;zt&uuml;rk&rsquo;s &ldquo;crime?&rdquo; Co-authoring an o