# Media: Trust & Society

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Professor Philip Howard, Professor Patricia Kingori, Professor Andrew Chadwick, Professor Hugo de Burgh
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Society and politics, History, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/media-trust)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Organised disinformation about the Covid-19 crisis has degraded public understanding of the crisis and threatened the reputation of credible vaccines and health policy. This talk looks at the broad structures and recent history of computational propaganda - the use of algorithms, automation and human curation to distribute misleading information over social media. Dr Howard reviews the latest evidence about social media use during our current health crisis, and discusses the opportunities for using social media to deepen democracy and 'build back better'.

## Lectures

1. [Social Media, COVID & Ukraine: Fighting Disinformation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-media-trust/d9c697948f9f) (YouTube)
2. [What Can We Learn from Fakes?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-media-trust/16fa6e18b9d7) (YouTube)
3. [Breaking Democracy: Lies, Deception and Disinformation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-media-trust/b267e1b0fe6c) (YouTube)
4. [Investigative Journalism: A New Global Power?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-media-trust/39d0520368c1) (YouTube)