Misinfo Weekly

About Misinfo Weekly

Misinfo Weekly is an educational podcast for lay audiences dedicated to understanding misinformation in our time. Every week (mostly) we try to provide some perspective on current events in misinformation. The show breaks down basic and advanced concepts in mis and disinformation, as well as helps track and trace how misinformation events come to be. The show is collaboration between the Information Competition Lab (https://globalfutures.asu.edu/icl/), which Michal and Shawn co-lead, and the Unit for Data Science and Analytics at Arizona State University Library (https://lib.asu.edu/data/). Show conversations are aimed at late high school and beyond. About your podcasters: Michael Simeone (http://michaelsimeone.org/) is a Research Professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems at ASU. He studies the limits and capabilities of data science as well as how ideas circulate in different media. You'll find him on Twitter as @michael_simeone (https://twitter.com/michael_simeone). Shawn Walker (https://shawnw.io/) is an Assistant Professor of Social Data Science in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at ASU. His research focuses on mis and disinformation and online resistance circulating in social media during social movements, protests, and elections as well as the related challenges of collecting, analyzing, and preserving data from social media platforms. You'll find him on Twitter as @walkeroh (https://twitter.com/walkeroh) and online at shown.io (https://shawnw.io). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Michael Simeone and Shawn Walker

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Aug 2020

Latest episode

7 Sept 2023

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Sept 2023

   The Sound of Freedom and Summer at the Movies with QAnon

   In this episode, we talk about the surprise hit film, The Sound of Freedom. We look at expert takes on the film's presentation of child trafficking, and we also discuss some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the distribution of the movie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   13 Jun 2023

   Twitter's Chief Misinformation Officer: Our final episode of the Twilogy

   After some time has passed, we discuss just how much the Twitter platform has changed, and we look forward to how the spread of misinformation in 2024 on Twitter could be very different from what we have seen previously. We cover persons on the platform, moderation policies, and how users are likely to encounter misinformation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   19 Dec 2022

   Twitter is Burning: Straining to Validate the Big Lie and Implications for Future Misinformation Events

   Misinformation and issues of content moderation go hand in hand. And there are some lessons to be learned from the current Twitter debacle. We go over some key changes in the platform, and we review some of the ways that Twitter may invite future misinformation. We also review some data about activity on other alt-tech platforms to get a sense of what Twitter and its CEO may represent to other communities online. Finally, we explore some parallels in the Twitter acquisition and the 45th Presidency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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4.7 / 5

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