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Podcast: Randumb Thoughts
Episode: Still Panicking
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ChatGPT 5.2 says: “In 1938, a radio broadcast sent parts of America into a panic over a fake alien invasion. Nearly ninety years later, we’re doing it again — only now the panic spreads faster, wider, and with far less accountability. In this episode of Randumb Thoughts, Darren O’Neill revisits War of the Worlds and draws unsettling parallels between radio hysteria and today’s world of AI voices, deepfake videos, breaking-news theater, and viral misinformation.
From media outrage cycles and political hypocrisy to confirmat...