ENCORE: Misunderstanding Misinformation
Claire Wardle (co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab, and Professor of the Practice at the Brown School of Public Health) joins Ron Steslow to discuss the challenges( and failures) in improving our information landscape
(02:12) Claire’s background and how it led to her research
(05:52) Why terms like “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation” have become less and less useful
(08:45) How the real world doesn’t fit the framework of “misinformation” and “disinformation”
(10:50) Why we share stories online and how that shapes the information environment
(21:40)…
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