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Sep 2024
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Introducing WIRED Politics Lab!

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Although we paused on publishing narrated versions of WIRED articles in this feed, you will still hear the latest in tech and politics from the WIRED team.

Join host Leah Feiger and a rotation of guests as they guide you through the exciting, challenging, and sometimes entertaining vortex of internet extremism, conspiracies, and disinformation on WIRED Politics Lab.

You can find the information needed to lift the fog of disinformation we find ourselves in everyday right on this feed.

Listen to WIRED Politics Lab: https://listen.wired.com/politicslab_feeddrop

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