From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)

Journalist and author Ashley Rindsberg returns to The Michael Shermer Show for a wide-ranging conversation about the new media world: influencers with audiences larger than cable networks, conspiracy theories built for engagement, and the collapse of trust that followed COVID, censorship, and years of institutional overreach. Ashley Rindsberg is an investigative journalist and author focused on digital information platforms. He is the founder and editor of NPOV , which looks at how knowledge platforms like Wikipedia are used to distort information and seed damaging narratives online. He is the author of The Gray Lady Winked , an expose on The New York Times , and serves as Editor-at-Large at Pirate Wires, a leading tech, politics, and culture outlet.

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From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg) is an episode from The Michael Shermer Show by Michael Shermer.

This episode is 01:17:58 long.

This episode was published on May 14, 2026.

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