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Eliene Augenbraun: How Truth Survives When Everyone Has a Microphone
We see thousands of headlines, posts, and AI-made clips every day, so how do we know what to trust? Dr. Eliene Augenbraun explains why facts alone rarely change minds, and how context, familiarity, trusted relationships, and interpretation shape what people believe.
In this episode, Dante and Eliene discuss:
Competing narratives and how they shape belief
The personal influence model and social media algorithms
Science as interpretation and Kuhn's scientific revolutions
How media technology changed, from signal fires to online video
AI's risks and uses in science and medicine
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