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Misinfo Weekly
By Michael Simeone and Shawn WalkerEducation
Misinfo Weekly episodes
- Election 2020 Dis/Misinformation PreviewIt's probably foolish to make any predictions at all about the 2020 US election, but armed with our best mis/disinformation metaphors, we give it a try. We inventory all the misinfo narratives circulating before November 3, and we also talk about practical steps and things to look out for when thinking through how to best deal with inevitable arrival of incomplete information, disinformation, or misinformation in the coming weeks.
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31 min - Living with the News: An Interview with Dr. Kristy Roschke
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Kristy Roschke, Managing Director of the News Co/Lab at the Walter Cronkite School for Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. As a media scholar and educator, she offers some perspective on the role of news in our everyday lives, and how dramatically our practices around making and reading news have changed. Transcript can be found in the episode link.
Information and details for her online course can be found at https://cronkite.asu.edu/news-and-events/news/news-colab-america-amplified-launch-free-online-media-literacy-course
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1 hr 12 min - The Miserable Case of @sciencing_bi
In this episode, we talk about how a former professor and science equity activist used a sockpuppet Twitter account to gain access and prestige when interacting with academics and professionals online. Key to her strategy was to invent and then impersonate a fictional Hopi scientist working at Arizona State University. Things got even stranger when she killed her fictional character and blamed it on a poor national and organizational response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This story by Asher Elbein, which includes an interview with Dr. Marisa Duarte, makes some excellent points that merit your attention before tuning in: https://gen.medium.com/the-death-of-a-fake-twitter-personality-reveals-the-systemic-rot-of-academia-19e9c6c9aa9a
This episode was recorded August 7, 2020 at 2:50pm MST.
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40 min - Health Disinformation: Plandemic and America's Frontline Doctors
We discuss health disinformation via the context of two films that have a very specific purpose and were engineered to deceive the audience. The first one is called Plandemic and the second one is called America's Frontline Doctors. The first one, Plandemic, is much more of a documentary style. The second, America's Frontline Doctors, comes in the form of a live stream event with doctors in white coats standing on the steps of the US Supreme Court. We discuss how both films use strong visual imagery to evoke emotional reactions and recirculate/re-purpose misinformation from anti-vax communities.
This episode was recorded on July 31, 2020 at 3:47pm MST.
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59 min - asu_covid.parties - the fake resistanceWhat started as a strange Instagram account inviting ASU students to "COVID parties" and resistance to ASU COVID policies, ended up looking an awful lot like a networked disinformation operation. We talk about the strategy, medium, and consequences.
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50 min - The Wayfair Conspiracy - how a furniture website became the epicenter of a misinformation event about child traffickingWe discuss the emergence and spread of the QAnon conspiracy theory that online furniture store Wayfair is a front for a child trafficking ring. We also take a look at how misinformation events can be deeply participatory. Transcript can be found in the episode link.
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40 min - Misinfo, Bots, and Trolls - Some Key Concepts for MisinformationWe scratch the surface on some basic terms and concepts that can be helpful for understanding misinformation events. Full transcript is available in the episode link.
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57 min - Parler and QAnon - is this the new conservative Twitter?We take a look at the social media platform, Parler, and think through the roles that it plays because of its proximity to high-profile, conservative political figures. We talk about Parler as a way that QAnon is getting more mainstreamed, and it also means we got Parler accounts! Recorded July 31, 2020. A transcript of the podcast is available via the episode link..
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48 min - The Problem with COVID-19 DashboardsVisualizing data for a pandemic during a pandemic is hard work, but there are some aspects of COVID-19 charts and graphs that invite misinformation or inadvertently give room for conspiracies to have more explanatory value. Recorded June 2020
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45 min - Who Cancelled Paw Patrol? No One Did!We investigate the origins of the misinformation about the cancellation of the popular children's show, Paw Patrol. We follow the trail from a handful of tweets all the way to news reports claiming that the show has perished at the hands of "Cancel Culture."
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About Misinfo Weekly
From the publisher's feed
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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