{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Lou Perez Podcast - Kira Shishkin","description":"Kira Shishkin is the CEO and founder of Informed.now \u2014 a news-by-SMS service that sends you one text per day covering what actually changed the world in the last 24 hours. No ads. No bias. No storytelling. Just primary sources, direct quotes, and a link so you can read the original sources yourself. Kira grew up in Ukraine, came of age in Israel, and built this company after watching both countries get torn apart by information warfare. He knows what happens when people can't trust what they're reading \u2014 and he built something to fix it. We got into: why American news is designed to exhaust and trigger you; how Informed.now sources directly from government agencies; why they link to the actual PDF instead of a story about the PDF; what today's top stories were (OPEC output increases, China blocking US sanctions on Iran oil traders, Vietnam getting flagged for IP theft); how real humans \u2014 not bots \u2014 answer your follow-up texts; and why the only way to keep news unbiased is to make the reader the client, not the advertiser. Try it \u2192 informed.now TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 \u2014 Intro \u2014 who is Kira Shishkin and what is Informed.now? 1:45 \u2014 Why reading the news in America has become exhausting 3:10 \u2014 How it works: one SMS per day, primary sources only 5:20 \u2014 Why they link directly to the source \u2014 and why no one else does 7:30 \u2014 The UN, the White House, and healthy skepticism of primary sources 10:15 \u2014 Facts vs. storytelling \u2014 why Informed.now doesn't tell you what to think 13:40 \u2014 How they decide what makes the cut: the significance filter 16:55 \u2014 Today's top stories live: OPEC output, China-Iran oil, Vietnam IP 20:10 \u2014 The two-way SMS \u2014 real humans, not chatbots 24:30 \u2014 Lou suggests FOIA requests \u2014 Kira puts it on the roadmap 27:15 \u2014 What to do when there are no primary sources (war reporting) 30:40 \u2014 Growing up in Ukraine and Israel \u2014 information warfare up close 34:20 \u2014 AI-generated war images, radicalization, and the social media echo chamber 37:50 \u2014 Kira's background: think tanks, TurboTax, private equity, crypto 41:10 \u2014 The business model: reader-funded, no ads, no investors, profitable 44:00 \u2014 Outro and where to find Informed.now Watch full episodes on YouTube \u2192  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&amp;amp;list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ&amp;nbsp;  Listen on Apple Podcasts \u2192  https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-lou-perez-podcast\/id1535032081&amp;nbsp;  Listen on Spotify \u2192 https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU&amp;nbsp; \ud83d\udcd6 Lou's book \u2014 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VhFa1r&amp;nbsp; \ud83c\udf10 TheLouPerez.com | \ud83d\udce7 info@thelouperez.com&amp;nbsp; \u2709\ufe0f Newsletter: https:\/\/substack.com\/@louperez&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"The Lou Perez Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/thelouperez.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/41207185\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/201685520"}