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Times Event: How to Save Ourselves From Disinformation
Comedian Sarah Silverman and The Times’s Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Davey Alba explore how disinformation spreads, and how we can fight back.
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It spreads through social media and message boards. Through television pundits and talk radio. And in daily conversations, in every corner of the world. Disinformation can change minds and fuel movements. But is it an unstoppable force? How can we resist a torrent of falsehoods and distortions?
Join Sarah Silverman, comedian and host of The Sarah Silverman Podcast, and Times reporters Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Davey Alba as they untangle the roots of disinformation, and the effects it has on our world.
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such faulty ideas, concepts and terms actually misrepresent what s happening online
Filter bubbles and echo chambers have become popular concepts in media commentary. They are frequently invoked as an explanation for the apparent rise of conspiracy theories, extremism and social division.
In this popular conception, filter bubbles and echo chambers are destroying democracy by reducing our exposure to diverse ideas while fostering extremism among like-minded people. These ideas became popular in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election and they remain popular now to explain everything from the riots at the US Capitol to public protests against Covid-19 lockdowns.
But are filter bubbles and echo chambers real? The evidence suggests that these concepts misrepresent what s happening online and that’s important because we are unlikely to arrive at good outcomes if we rely on faulty ideas to define the problem.
Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate
A little-noticed group of government-funded researchers is developing a clever inoculation against the disinformation and violence threatening American democracy.
By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated February 5, 2021, 3:01 a.m.
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The coronavirus vaccine rollout, however chaotic, has been cause for optimism; we can all hope that COVID-19 will soon lose its power.
But itâs hard to be sanguine about the course of our other pandemic: hate. The storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was a shocking display of extremismâs reach.