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Agents of Chaos: The Terrifying Story Behind the 2016 Election

In this age of social collapse and modern plague it’s easy to forget that the 2016 Presidential Election was a clusterfuck of gargantuan proportions. Never before (then) had an election campaign for the highest office in the country become not only a drama, but a media spectacle with a shocking finale. Russian spies. Secret payoffs. Wikileaks. <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp3bbv/dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-full-interview-transcript" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Guccifer 2.0</a>. War in Ukraine. Election interference. All spelling (maybe?), the first chapter in the ending to the American Experiment? HBO has released a great new two-part documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-OA7H8DoJM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">deep diving this entire, historical ordeal</a>. Co-directed by film great Alex Gibney and Javier Botero, <a href="https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/agents-of-chaos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Agents of Chaos</a> parses exactly what happened to America during what’s become the most insane election ever (at least so far).  Botero is on the show this week to talk about the doc, the chaos of 2016 and what legacy it has left America. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.