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Viral NetworksInvestigating mis- and disinformation online. Author: Media Ecosystems Analysis Group
Viral Networks is a podcast examining online mis- and disinformation from every angle with the help of the academics who study it. Across six episodes, each about 30 minutes along we cover political disinformation campaigns led by state actors, the organic spread of health misinformation around COVID in America and Nigeria, and the production and dissemination of disinformation across apps from Facebook to WhatsApp to Gab, in countries from India to the Philippines to America. Language: en-us Genres: Science, Social Sciences, Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Solving the Internet's misinformation problem
Episode 6
Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
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.
