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Misinfo Weekly
By Michael Simeone and Shawn WalkerEducation
Misinfo Weekly episodes
- Vaccine Misinformation and Our Pets with Dr. BradleyIn this episode we discuss the common misinformation surrounding the vaccination of our pets with veterinarian Dr. Kelsey Bradley. We discuss how some of these concerns are similar to misinformation surrounding human vaccines including the dangers/toxicity of vaccine ingredients, vaccination frequency, role of "big pharma" in persuading veterinarians to recommend vaccinations, etc. Dr. Bradley walks us through how she discusses the risks and benefits of vaccinations with pet owners. Full transcript can be found at https://lib.asu.edu/data/learning
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59 min - Vaccine Misinformation is Nothing New - Vaccine Conspiracy Theories with Anna MuldoonIn this episode we bring a historical perspective to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. We discuss conspiracy theories, smallpox inoculations, Victorian misinformation, and their relationship to present-day COVID-19 vaccinations with Anna Muldoon. Anna is an author of a recent book on COVID-19 conspiracy theories and a researcher at ASU. We also discuss the history of vaccine development from inoculations for smallpox to current day COVID-19 vaccines and how that creast a ripe environment for misinformation circulating today around COVID-19. Full transcript can be found at https://lib.asu.edu/data/learning
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53 min - Vaccine Misinformation: Series IntroductionIn the first episode of our vaccine misinformation miniseries, we lay out some of the key concepts and themes that come up when we study misinformation about vaccines. These themes continue throughout our subsequent interview series on vaccine hesitancy. Full transcript can be found at https://lib.asu.edu/data/learning
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25 min - Political Psychology with Logan ClarkWe interview Logan Clarke from the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University. In the conversation, Logan goes through some concepts from political psychology that can help make sense of how policy conversations around misinformation and technology platforms often seem to flounder in polarized conflict. The full episode transcript can be found at https://lib.asu.edu/data/learning
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37 min - Did Windmills Mess with Texas? Misinformation about the Power Grid in TexasIn February 2021, a powerful winter storm disrupted the power grid in Texas. Thousands lost power and the state was thrown into a state of emergency. In this episode, we explore some of the misinformation that circulated during and after the power outage, the use of misinformation to frame blame and shape policy changes due to the failure, and discuss how misinformation about infrastructure can inflict a particularly durable kind of damage on a state or country.
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32 min - Web archives and the Wayback Machine: a key tool for understanding and even propagating misinformationContent on the internet is always changing in quiet and subtle ways. Without the ability to track how the internet has changed, it's difficult to get a read on trends in misinformation. In this episode, we interview Dr. Jessica Ogden about the web archiving, and we get her take on important methods and uses for web archives. We discuss how web archives are created by both memory institutions such as libraries as well as hacker collectives like ArchiveTeam. We also discuss the race to archive platforms such as Parler and NSFW Tumblr as they shut down. Dr. Ogden is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol, an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Fellow at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute.
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57 min - President Trump and Parler Have Been Deplatformed: what are the consequences of giving users the boot?We talk about the January 6 insurrection, the disappearance of Parler, as well as the responses of platforms to the misinformation that drove it. We talk through the consequences of kicking users off of platforms, as well as discuss the differences between archiving and fact-checking. Episode transcript can be found in the Episode Link.
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39 min - Vulnerability (Happy Holidays)We flip things around, and instead of talking about tactics and techniques of misinformation (where we think about creators and senders of content), we talk through the different kinds of vulnerabilities we all face as consumers of that content. We think through individual, collective, and contextual factors that will help you consider your own orientation to the potentially destructive content you encounter.
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38 min - Post-Election: Fox Under Fire and The Migration to ParlerWe look at some of the disinformation swirling around the election outcome, and we look at some Twitter trends that indicate a real divide between emerging and conventional news sources for conservatives. We also discuss the viability of the "filter bubble" thesis, and evaluate some claims of mass migration to Parler.
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43 min - Wildfire Disinformation Narratives with Dr. Steve CormanIn this episode, we are joined by Dr. Steve Corman, who directs the Center for Strategic Communication at Arizona State University. We go through some published journalism, as well as Facebook and Twitter data, to get to the bottom of the rumors surrounding the west coast wildfires of 2020. We try to answer the question, "does disinformation activity surrounding these fires resemble previous Russian efforts at sowing division and confusion in the US and abroad?"
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About Misinfo Weekly
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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, which Michal and Shawn co-lead, and the Unit for Data Science and Analytics at Arizona State University Library. Show conversations are aimed at late high school and beyond.
About your podcasters:
Michael Simeone 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.
Shawn Walker 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 and online at shown.io.
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