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Renee DiResta - Part 2: Pseudo-Events, More on Disinformation, and Telling Fact From Fiction
· 50 min · Explicit
Episode Renee DiResta - Part 2: Pseudo-Events, More on Disinformation, and Telling Fact From Fiction
Renee DiResta, professor and author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, joins the show again to dive deeper into disinformation, propaganda, and "pseudo-events," or manufactured controversies and news stories. She explains why it’s so difficult to tell fact from fiction online, how propagandists stoke real, often legitimate tensions to create division, how American politicians are amplifying false information instead of shutting it down, and possible policies that could help reduce our culty social media silos. SOURCES
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America
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