Ep 6 - Fact Checking, Prebunking and Debunking

Michelle Ainsworth explores the tools that are being used to tackle misinformation and disinformation, while at the same time keeping a healthy information ecosystem that produces accurate, trustworthy and reliable information, while still exposing people to a variety of ideas.

She’ll talk to leading academics who work on pre-bunking initiatives, senior journalists and news executives, information integrity experts and disinformation specialists.

This episode includes interviews with:

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

Professor Rasmus Nielson, Former Director Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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

Sam Stockwell, Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technology and Security

Dean Jackson, Democracy, Media and Technology Specialist

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

Professor Jon Roozenbeek, Social Decision-Making Lab, Cambridge University

Professor Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, Cambridge University

Tom Rogers, former Australian Electoral Commissioner

Publications cited:

United nations - Information Integrity

Bad News Game - Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab

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