Solving the Internet's misinformation problem

21/6/2022

Viral Networks

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To wrap up Viral Networks, we invited some experts to talk to us about inventions and solutions that can stop the spread of misinformation online. Those range from some user-level solutions from psychologist Gordon Pennycook, to community fact-checking in Africa with David Cheruiyot, to the demand for better platforms and data access from our colleague and digital public infrastructure scholar Ethan Zuckerman.

Altri episodi di "Viral Networks"

Solving the Internet's misinformation problem
21/6/2022
31:18
To wrap up Viral Networks, we invited some experts to talk to us about inventions and solutions that can stop the spread of misinformation online. Those range from some user-level solutions from psychologist Gordon Pennycook, to community fact-checking in Africa with David Cheruiyot, to the demand for better platforms and data access from our colleague and digital public infrastructure scholar Ethan Zuckerman.
Platform forensics: how misinformation content goes viral
14/6/2022
30:22
This week, we're putting all of the pieces together, looking at how influential groups from major politicla parties to well-coordinated extremists tailor mis- and disinformation content for specific platforms. We're joined by Scott Babwah Brennen who studies viral images, Kiran Garimella who studies Indian poltiics on WhatsApp, and Jeremy Blackburn who traces far-right American groups across shadowy platforms.
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How to detect a disinformation campaign
7/6/2022
26:20
Groups have been running disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Twitter for almost as long as those platforms have been popular. In this episode, we talk to Ray Serrato, Gianluca Stinghini, and Fabio Giglietto about how they find suspicious behavior they can tie to campaigns in places from Myanmar to Italy to the United States.
Welcome to the disinfo industry
31/5/2022
33:15
Are you contributing to a disinformation campaign without even knowing it? This week, we talk to Kate Starbird about unwillingly contributing to the spread of mis- and disinformation, Jonathan Corpus details the Filipino disinformation industry built on gig workers, and we hear from Young Mie Kim about Russian's intervention in Western politics.
How disease conspiracy theories are born
24/5/2022
29:56
This week, we focus on COVID-19 misinformation, talking to Kolina Koltai, ethnographer of vaccine conspiracy theory communities; Jon Lee, a folklorist who studies the history of conspiracy theories about disease; and Ifeanyi Nsofor, a Nigerian public health expert reporting on religious leaders' role in COVID skepticism.
What are mis- and disinformation?
17/5/2022
24:04
Viral Networks is a six-part series investigating the current state of mis- and disinformation online with the scholars studying it from the front lines. In our first episode, Camille François to tells us how researchers identify mis- and disinformation, and Joan Donovan from the Harvard Shorenstein Center explains how platform design lets misinformation go viral, sometimes with deadly outcomes.

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Solving the Internet's misinformation problem

Viral Networks

Altri episodi di "Viral Networks"

Solving the Internet's misinformation problem

Platform forensics: how misinformation content goes viral

How to detect a disinformation campaign

Welcome to the disinfo industry

How disease conspiracy theories are born

What are mis- and disinformation?