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How do algorithms facilitate the rise of political fringes in Europe? And what makes it worthy for political opportunists to be radical? We invited Prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro, who has an academic background in law, governance and politics, to reflect on the various threats to democracy from social media, and
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Georgetown University researchers programmed a text generator to come up with disinformation on climate change and politics. Once tweeted, the computer-generated disinformation persuaded test subjects, and could even nudge the readers to change their minds on important subjects such as climate change and politics. This episode explores the power and
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After Spotify chose to remove Neil Young's music rather than challenge its relationship with podcaster Joe Rogan (you can read more about the controversy here), the problem of disinformation in audio is rearing its head
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When Daiva and Eva were starting their investigation into activism against measles vaccination, another team of journalists also set off to explore this movement in other parts of Europe. Anna Nordbeck and Malin Olofsson started investigating the Scandinavian anti-vaccination movement in 2019, and this led the team all the way
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The tiny island of Malta is an overachiever in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Politico.
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Who Believes Misinformation? Are Liberals More Susceptible?
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Doctors Spreading Misinformation, Tech Millionaires Spreading Misinformation and Facebook Down! Inoculated Newsletter (07.10.2021)
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A number of relevant articles, studies and data has recently come out, so we read some of them – so you don't have to: The Inoculation’s September round-up.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Media Matters reports [https://www.mediamatters.org/project-veritas/social-media-platforms-are-letting-project-veritas-video-pushing-coronavirus] that a "Project Veritas video featuring a so-called “whistleblower” who makes false attacks on the safety and effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines has spread on multiple social media platforms, getting millions of views despite rules on these pl
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This week: 1. Nicki Minaj's claim [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/nicki-minaj-vaccine.html]drew a number of high-level responses, including one from Trinidad & Tobago's Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh, highlighting that misinformation isn't just harmful because it weakends trust in vaccines,
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On our first episode after the summer break we discuss mandatory vaccination mandates - something we have been researching before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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In this episode, we talked to Miriam Matthews author of a report published in April called Superspreaders of Malign.