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Signal Fire

Jon Zieger & Lisa Senecal

What happens when a free society loses its grip on shared truth? The old system is breaking. Legacy media is struggling. Social platforms are the main source of news for millions—but they're designed for engagement, not accuracy. On Signal Fire, hosts Jon Zieger, who helped lead some of America’s most successful technology companies, and Lisa Senecal, a media strategist, narrative expert, and pro-democracy platform founding editor, explore how our information systems are breaking—and what can rebuild them. Each week brings honest talk with journalists, creators, and technologists working toward real solutions. Truth matters. Let’s find our way back.

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Episodes

53 episodes

  1. What Election Day Results Prove About Where Democrats Can Win 47:57
  2. Why State Attorneys General Should Take On the Trump White House, According to a Republican Adviser 50:06
  3. A New Mexico Jury Just Ordered Meta to Pay $25 Billion and Nobody Is Talking About It 48:57
  4. Trump Is Buying Russian Diesel in Violation of Two US Laws Passed by His Own Party 48:46
  5. Utah Just Let AI Prescribe Medicine Without a Doctor and It Is a Preview of What Is Coming 43:50
  6. Is the Media Covering Up Trump's Mental Decline? 40:06
  7. Trump Launched His Own State TV Channel and Only 8000 People Out of 174 Million Watched It 44:14
  8. The Iran War Just Got Bigger, Gas Is Hitting $9, and Trump Is Holding Loyalty Oath Ceremonies 36:39
  9. An Obama White House Adviser Says Tech Companies Write Their Own Rules and Always Have 45:32
  10. 25 Years After 9/11 America Has Never Honestly Reckoned With the Damage It Did to Itself 49:59
  11. The $18 Billion Meta Fine Is Less Than 10% of Their Annual Revenue and They Know It 52:12
  12. A Navy SEAL Who Went to Harvard Says Personal Loyalty to Trump Is Not Masculinity 46:37
  13. Donald Trump Owns 41% of a Company That Profits Directly From His Own Government Decisions 53:02
  14. Trump Started the Iran War to Distract From Tariffs and Now Needs to Distract From the War 44:46
  15. How Authoritarianism Spreads and a Soviet Era Expert Says America Is Already Using It 53:33
  16. Peter Thiel Believes Democracy Has Failed and Billionaires Should Govern in Its Place 47:56
  17. Big Pharma and the Supplement Industry Both Profit From Your Fear and They Know It 52:43
  18. A Network TV Anchor Covered So Much Darkness She Lost the Ability to Feel Anything 45:38
  19. Trump Made 2 Billion Dollars From Crypto While His Government Eliminated Crypto Regulation 53:37
  20. Whoever Wins This Election Controls Enough Power to Melt the Planet in 28 Minutes 49:44
  21. The Billionaires Replacing Governments 48:14
  22. Your Town Lost Its Local News and No One Is Watching What Your Mayor Does Anymore 42:02
  23. Tesla, Pepsi and 86 Other Companies Paid Zero Taxes Last Year and Got Refunds 42:12
  24. She Spent 17 Years Documenting How Christian Nationalism Is Being Used to Destroy Democracy 49:57
  25. Inflation Is Up, Wages Are Down, Debt Is at a Record High. So Tell Me Again How America Is First. 53:01
  26. Elon Musk Is Not Avoiding Taxes. He Is Taxing You. 57:43
  27. The FBI Just Seized Local Election Records for the First Time in American History 52:48
  28. Trump Has Never Won a Majority. He Never Needed To. 49:57
  29. Hegseth Fired the Pentagon Lawyers on Day One. A Veteran Says There Is Only One Reason to Do That. 47:43
  30. When Faith Became Political 44:11
  31. The Truth Problem No One Can Solve 40:33
  32. The Quiet Collapse of U.S. Global Leadership 52:27
  33. No Kings, Only Citizens 49:07
  34. Who Controls the Narrative Now 45:47
  35. How False Beliefs Take Hold 47:38
  36. Sleep Walking Towards Autocracy 1:02:36
  37. Who Controls The Narrative? 50:11
  38. The Influencer Industrial Complex 49:27
  39. Empathy in an Age of Autocracy 40:58
  40. Corruption Without Consequences 43:59
  41. How To Save Democracy & Fight Autocracy 39:15
  42. When Truth Becomes The Target 54:40
  43. Authoritarianism in Real Time 55:39
  44. When Journalism Stops Challenging Power 56:12
  45. Public Lands Become Political Battlegrounds 41:03
  46. When Journalism Self-Censors 56:40
  47. Why Being Informed Is Getting Harder 1:02:10
  48. Media Ownership and the Future of Journalism 46:59
  49. Reporting in a Polarized Age 44:59
  50. The War For Truth Online 45:31