Can Butch Ware Upend California? Dr. Ware on the Disinfo Detox Podcast
Dr. Butch Ware was recently invited to appear on the Disinfo Detox podcast, hosted by Dr. Nolan Higdon. The Disinfo Detox is the podcast that cuts through the lies and scrubs propaganda from public discourse. Each episode, they break down major news stories, exposing the spin, omissions, and distortions that mainstream media won’t tell you about. The Disinfo Detox podcast is a part of Dr. Higdon’s Gaslight Gazette Substack newsletter which boasts nearly 80,000 subscribers.
Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored National Judge. Higdon’s areas of concentration include critical AI literacy, podcasting, digital culture, news media history & propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon’s work is available on Substack.
He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020); Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (2022); The Media And Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022); and Surveillance Education: Navigating the conspicuous absence of privacy in schools (Routledge). Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. Higdon is a regular source of expertise for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.