Disinformation Information Disentanglement (Jessica, Alex and Ernesto)

In this week’s episode, Jessica, Alex and Ernesto dive into the topic of disinformation and media literacy. Through the lens of Bulger and Davison, we explore the motivations of why people would actively work to spread news that lies to and misleads others. Discussing internet trolls, content creators and news sources both trusted and not.
References

Bulger and Davison (2018) The promises, challenges, and futures of media literacy

Manjoo (2011) True enough

Spies (2020) Producers of disinformation

Aaron Chia Yuan Hung