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Published: May 12, 2024, 12:17 a.m.

As we head into another presidential election year, few issues feel as pressing as the spread of political misinformation. How can political campaigns fight back against the barrage of lies and disinformation?

As time, tension, and technology all progress in our world, we\u2019re not always prepared for the acceleration and its impact on the political climate. The public can often be left to weed through a seemingly endless digital news cycle and the task of differentiating between fact, misinformed fictions, and intentional disinformation. As the population faces the high-stakes election season once again, Sasha Issenberg turns a critical lens toward the complicated landscape of the American political institution, rising incentives, and the ever-expanding social media landscape.

A decade after his last dive into social science and modern political analysis in his book\xa0The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns,\xa0Issenberg returns to expand more on the behind-the-scenes mechanics of politics. His newest book\xa0The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Defeating Disinformation and Winning Elections\xa0urges readers to understand more from a range of high-level journalists, strategists, critics, and political operatives in their efforts to grapple online misinformation. From digital forums of anonymous amateurs to high-visibility government and party officials, the challenges and tactics at play throughout cyberspace have expansive reach and real-world consequences.\xa0The Lie Detectives\xa0pulls to the forefront the political class striving to tackle these issues as they emerge, and what the threat of disinformation could mean for democracy, especially at pivotal times.

Sasha Issenberg\xa0is a journalist and author who has been published in\xa0New York, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe,\xa0and\xa0George, where he also served as a contributing editor. He teaches at the UCLA Department of Political Science and is a correspondent for\xa0Monocle.\xa0His previous books include\xa0The Sushi Economy\xa0and\xa0The Engagement: America\u2019s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage.

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Austin Jenkins is a staff writer at Pluribus News, covering tech policy and other issues in state legislatures. He is also the longtime host of \u201cInside Olympia\u201d on TVW, the state\u2019s C-SPAN network. Previously, Austin spent nearly two decades as the Olympia correspondent for Northwest NPR stations.

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