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Cleaning Up after Dirty Disinformation Tricks

Posted March 31, 202100:38:30

“Falsehood flies…and the Truth comes limping after it,” wrote Jonathan Swift the Anglo-Irish writer and satirist in 1710. That was in the 18th...

Gaming the Players – QAnon

Posted March 24, 202100:37:17

Have you ever wondered about the birth of bizarre conspiracy theories like QAnon on-line? And why, despite the farfetched fabric of these stories, so...

Paying for it in the Attention Economy

Posted March 17, 202100:44:53

In early 1997 a UC Berkley based Theoretical Physicist wrote article in Wired Magazine, where he called “attention” the currency of the new economy....

(How) Can we dig ourselves out of a deepfake hole?

Posted February 10, 202100:38:26

Guest: Andrew J. Grotto The term “Deepfake” was first coined by a Reddit user who  created a forum of the same name in  2017.  The forum was...

Can advances in technology help liberate us from the grip of disinformation?

Posted February 3, 202100:40:25

The events of the last few years have underlined that we are awash in disinformation, AND that a large swath of society believes that disinformation...