Disinformation and conspiracies spun out of control last week when police departments raided college campuses across the country during pro-Palestinian protests.
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Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Politics Desk has been all the misinformation and disinformation swirling around what's going on. What have you both found? Vittoria Elliot: Well, let's first talk about New York. So protests started at Columbia in mid-April, and it was actually one group of students that were arrested very peacefully. And by that I mean they recognized that they were facing arrest if they occupied the lawn, they sat in a circle, the police sort of came around, tapped people on the shoulder.
has said another thing. So we're really trying to independently verify everything that we hear. Makena Kelly: , these were very, very different. And now the students are still trying to figure out exactly what happened. Vittoria Elliot: And this was also true at City College, New York, which is part of the CUNY system, the city university system. And so I actually spoke to a student journalist there, Leon Orlov-Sullivan, and he was talking about how with this outside agitator narrative, if you are a CUNY student at any one of the CUNY schools in New York, you can get into any of the CUNY campuses.
Politics Lab. Tori and Makena will be back in just a little bit to talk about their favorite conspiracies this week. But first, David Gilbert, our favorite Cork, Ireland based
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