REPLAY: Michael Fanone LIVE with Jordan Korgood and Ben Freedland
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This live was two conversations back-to-back, but they’re connected by the same reality: we’re living through a moment where the people with the loudest megaphones are trying to normalize corruption, intimidation, and political violence—and then act shocked when the country starts to fracture.
First, Ben Freedland (The Human Intelligence Ledger) joined me to talk about the relationships between informants and authorities, how narratives get built, and how information gets weaponized.
Then I brought on Jordan Korgood, who’s running for office and actually doing the work of showing up where it’s hard, talking to people who don’t already agree, and making the case for accountability candidates who don’t treat public service like a branding exercise. If you’re tired of performative politics and want to hear what real organizing sounds like, start here.
Watch the full recording. And if you want more conversations like this—candidates, organizers, independent voices—subscribe and share the video. The only way we beat coordinated b******t is with coordinated attention.
Honestly, part of what Jordan and I talked about is why it’s so hard for voters to make informed decisions in the first place.
Because depending on where you get your news, you can see two completely different versions of the same candidate, the same race, or the same issue. Some stories get amplified. Others get buried. And by the time most people realize it, the narrative has already been written for them.
That’s one reason I use Ground News.
Ground News is an app and website that lets you compare how outlets across the political spectrum are covering the same story. You can compare headlines side by side, see political bias at the publication level, and use features like the Blindspot Feed to spot stories that one side of the media landscape is heavily covering while the other barely mentions.
When you’re evaluating candidates and deciding who deserves your vote, that kind of context matters.
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