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Call Me Back: AI is Activating Antisemites Left and Right – with Niall Ferguson

Podcast: The Ricochet Superfeed
Published: Jul 23, 2026
Duration seconds: 2841
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Summary

Can historians win the fight against antisemitism and viral misinformation in the age of AI? Historian Niall Ferguson joins Dan to warn that fact-based historians are losing the battle with social media algorithms that spread false and antisemitic content to increasingly receptive audiences on both the right and left. He argues the rules of the […]