Ballast and Payload: How a Mostly...
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Ballast and Payload: How a Mostly-True Podcast Moved "China Incited BLM"
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This report analyzes a specific instance of misinformation on the PBD Podcast, where speakers used verified facts as a delivery system for false claims about Chinese interference in the 2020 BLM protests. By interleaving accurate data about Hunter Biden with unproven assertions of foreign incitement, the program utilized a technique called paltering to make the overall narrative appear credible. Research indicates that this "ballast and payload" structure exploits illusory truth effects, as listeners who verify the easy facts tend to generalize that trust to the entire segment. The analysis also places this modern claim within a 107-year historical lineage of "hidden-hand" narratives used to delegitimize domestic civil rights movements by attributing them to fore ... 

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