Podcasts · What's Wrong with Democracy?
Episode 3: The autocrat behind the keyboard
· 37 min · S1 E3
Episode Episode 3: The autocrat behind the keyboard
Another front on the war against democracy is information warfare. Ben Ansell digs into how modern day autocrats are using this. For almost a decade China has been running a media influencing campaign in Africa. Now Russia has taken it mainstream, and digital. But how effective are these disinformation campaigns? What’s the endgame? And how can we build up our defence arsenal?
Guests:
James Ball, journalist and author of Post Truth and The Other Pandemic
Emeka Umejei, research associate in the department of media studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
Ben Scott, CEO of Reset Tech
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Host: Professor Ben Ansell
Producers: Katie Gunning and Ada Barume
Editor: Jasper Corbett
Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil
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