Joseph Bendoski

An 80 year old conspiracy. A clash of spies, and the secret they buried. William Stephenson is an expert in mass media persuasion and propaganda. He watched the rise of Hitler on a mountain of lies, but Stephenson also believes that the Nazis can be undone by the same power that created them...

What makes a nation believe a lie? That’s the question Jay Nichols has been trying to answer since he first experienced widespread mass hysteria as a child. A question that started when Orson Welles put millions across America into a panic in less than an hour. Now, his Ph.D. work is...

What makes you believe a lie? I'm not asking how you know someone is lying. What makes you believe? Because if you don't understand how that works, then you won't know when you're being manipulated. In 1938 the War of the Worlds hoax panicked millions of Americans, then in 1988 another fictional...