'BradCast' 10/20/2023 (Encore: Labor expert Dr. Marick Masters on 'monumental achievement' of UAW labor leaders; Social media disinfo surge)
b"Original airdate 10-11-2023. On today's 'BradCast': With cable news war coverage now 24/7 following the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's retaliation against Gaza, social media is being inundated with a flood of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda.\\xa0 New reporting documents how Elon Musk's Twitter/X site has largely ignored the false content, allowing it to spread unchecked, and has been slow or non-responsive to volunteer community fact-checkers attempting to counter disinformation. In brighter news, the United Auto Workers struck a landmark deal with automaker General Motors that will include electric vehicle battery plant employees in the union's master national agreement with the company. Labor expert DR. MARICK MASTERS of Wayne State University in Detroit explains the big news for autoworkers and the UAW's successful bargaining strategies in their ongoing, unprecedented strike against all three major U.S. automakers. Masters breaks down the UAW's so-far successful three-part strategy in the ongoing strike, and how the new tactics and strategies employed by union leaders may be helpful to organizers in other industries, and much more. Hurricane Lidia slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast after rapidly intensifying into a dangerous Category 4 storm in just 10 hours over record warm ocean waters, another consequence of the climate crisis."