Comedian, author and commentator Andrew Doyle joins FSU General Secretary Lord Young to discuss a little-noticed government-commissioned report on misinformation and its implications for public debate.

The report's Orwellian proposals include "psychological inoculation", "pre-bunking" and game-based "interventions" to steer the public towards state-approved political messages.

Andrew Doyle and Lord Young also discuss:

Why Andrew and Graham Linehan are working from Arizona
Government proposals to give prominence online to approved news sources such as the BBC and Channel 4 News

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Read Andrew Doyle's Substack article about proposals to "inoculate" us against "wrongthink": https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/the-government-report-that-wants

Read Lord Young's Spectator article on the dangers of policing misinformation: https://spectator.com/article/the-dangers-of-policing-misinformation/

Read the report commissioned by the UK government's Office for Science, "False and Misleading Information: An Evidence Summary and Map for Policy and Practice" here: https://usher.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-05/False%20and%20Misleading%20Information%3A%20An%20Evidence%20Summary%20and%20Map%20for%20Policy%20and%20Practice%20.pdf

ANDREW DOYLE: New "Misinformation" Plan By Government Advisors Is Deeply Orwellian

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ANDREW DOYLE: New "Misinformation" Plan By Government Advisors Is Deeply Orwellian