What's up everybody? My name is Demetri Kofinas and you're listening to Hidden Forces, a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives and to learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world. This past week has been one of the most insane news cycles that I've experienced since at least the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Where fear was spreading faster than the virus itself, there was an overnight explosion in Twitter accounts claiming expertise in epidemiology and yet no one quite knew what to believe about anything. I kept thinking back to my conversation with John Ascomus about the fragmentation of the media ecosystem and what it means in practice when a society loses its ability to form consensus truths in the context of last week's While the impact of this dynamic on government policy is not the focus of today's conversation, it is an important backdrop that I want you all to keep in mind (1/57)
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