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Podcast: Democracy Works

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May 21, 2021
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The battle between facts and lies, truth and untruth, is one of the most pressing issues democracies face.

Peter Pomerantsev, author and a senior fellow at the London School of Economics and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, joins The McCourtney Institute for Democracy's podcast, "Democracy Works," to discuss the scope of the problem and how to move forward.

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