when donald trumer — the son of the former president — found out about this approach, he posted thismarianna spring joins me now in the studio. well, marianna spring was undeterred, responding... joins me now in the studio. thank you so much for coming on newswatch. what are we talking about when we're talking about disinformation in news? i think it's really important to think about how disinformation tends to be deliberate misleading of people, promoting conspiracy theories or falsehoods that can cause serious real world harm, and a lot of the focus that i have in thisjob is understanding how disinformation spreads and how it affects people — particularly those who are targeted by it — falsehoods about the pandemic, the war in ukraine. these aren't fringe beliefs any more. these aren't sort of small internet forums where people are promoting conspiracies that, you know, a lot of people would think are quite extreme and they wouldn't believe — particularly after the pandemic, but also around other major global events, elections and more. disinformation is more common than ever, it's

we've already heard from his son donald trumer, and the incumbent of marco rubio who is running for the election. what i can tell you is that on the stage, they have really presented this as a battle to save america, again pushing for the selection of the very different visions of america. we have had topics come up like the border, like crime. again, republicans hitting the economy and the inflation that we've seen, and just speaking to voters, they are certainly fired up, hoping for republicans to take back control of the us congress here, but many of them are also talking about a trump 2024 bit. many showing enthusiasm for the possibility that president trump, in the coming days, could announce that he is running again, and speaking to them, it is clear they believe he can still win. president trump has not gone away, like former presidents, choosing to stay very involved in politics, they believe he still commands a lot of attention at these rallies. you can see people turning out to hear him speak, but also a lot of control over the direction of the parties. so we will be hearing f