Ep. 4: Solutions to Misinformation

This episode examines the challenges in preventing the spread of misinformation and disinformation online. We hear from journalists, fact checkers and civil rights advocates on their work and how misinformation can lead to real world harm. 

An increasing problem in our digital era is losing friends or family to conspiracy rabbit holes. How should you deal with this? This episode explores how to use empathy as a tool in talking to a friend who is going down the conspiracy rabbit hole. 

Fake news: It’s everywhere. But Google’s Jigsaw team is using data to tackle the problem head-on. -- This program is produced by Mission.org and brought to you by Splunk, the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk helps organizations worldwide turn data into doing. With solutions fo ...  Show more

This episode features two segments on the subject of disinformation. In the first, Rebecca Rand speaks with Dr. Shelby Grossman, a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, on recent research that looks at whether AI can write persuasive propaganda. In the second seg ...  Show more

In the latest episode of Nature hits the books, psychologist Sander van der Linden joins us to discuss his new book Foolproof, which focuses on misinformation and what can be done to prevent people being duped, particularly by the falsehoods found online.We discuss how misinforma ...  Show more

Nina Jankowicz, former Director of DHS Disinformation Governance Board, joins to reveal how the the latest trends in disinformation are becoming harder to solve. Then, Melissa Bell on how to reestablish trust in American media and how to find the line between informing while not ...  Show more