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Ep 3 - Misinformation and Disinformation

Ep 3 - Misinformation and Disinformation

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Michelle Ainsworth explores how social media has enabled misinformation and disinformation to disrupt democracies around the world.

She’ll talk to digital forensics and disinformation experts, senior journalists, and academics who focus on information integrity.


This episode includes interviews with:

Professor Hany Farid, School of Information, UC Berkeley

Marty Baron, former Editor of the Washington Post and author of “Collision of Power”

Professor Amy E. Lehrman, Director of the Possibility Lab, UC Berkeley

Laura Manley, Executive Director Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University

Associate Professor Michelle Amazeen, Mass Communication, Boston University

Renee DiResta, researcher into online manipulation and author of “Invisible Rulers”

Nina Jankowicz, founder American Sunlight Project and author of “How to lose the information war”

Associate Professor Kelly Greenhill, Tufts University and author of “Weapons of Mass Migration”


Publications cited:

2024 Digital News Report - Reuters Institute

United Nations - Information Integrity

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