Viral Networks

By: Media Ecosystems Analysis Group
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  • Summary

  • Viral Networks is a podcast examining online mis- and disinformation from every angle with the help of the academics who study it. Across six episodes, each about 30 minutes along we cover political disinformation campaigns led by state actors, the organic spread of health misinformation around COVID in America and Nigeria, and the production and dissemination of disinformation across apps from Facebook to WhatsApp to Gab, in countries from India to the Philippines to America.
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Episodes
  • What are mis- and disinformation?

    What are mis- and disinformation?
    May 17 2022
    Viral Networks is a six-part series investigating the current state of mis- and disinformation online with the scholars studying it from the front lines. In our first episode, Camille François to tells us how researchers identify mis- and disinformation, and Joan Donovan from the Harvard Shorenstein Center explains how platform design lets misinformation go viral, sometimes with deadly outcomes.
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    24 mins
  • How disease conspiracy theories are born

    How disease conspiracy theories are born
    May 24 2022
    This week, we focus on COVID-19 misinformation, talking to Kolina Koltai, ethnographer of vaccine conspiracy theory communities; Jon Lee, a folklorist who studies the history of conspiracy theories about disease; and Ifeanyi Nsofor, a Nigerian public health expert reporting on religious leaders' role in COVID skepticism.
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    30 mins
  • Welcome to the disinfo industry

    Welcome to the disinfo industry
    May 31 2022
    Are you contributing to a disinformation campaign without even knowing it? This week, we talk to Kate Starbird about unwillingly contributing to the spread of mis- and disinformation, Jonathan Corpus details the Filipino disinformation industry built on gig workers, and we hear from Young Mie Kim about Russian's intervention in Western politics.
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    33 mins

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