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Podcast: Yochai Benkler on mass-media disinformation campaigns

Handmade signs supporting U.S. President Donald Trump, including one opposing mail-in voting, stand outside a business in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, U.S., August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Yochai Benkler, is a professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Here, he speaks with

Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic and Evelyn Douek about a new Berkman Klein Center study, which shows how President Donald Trump harnesses traditional mass media, as the primary vector for disinformation around mail-in voter fraud.

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