Social Media Episodes
July 4, 2024
Invisible Rulers: The people who turn lies into reality. Talking with Rene DiResta
Online narratives, rumors and propaganda promoted on social media. Trust and Safety. Stanford Internet Observatory,
Feb. 7, 2024
BBC and Social Media. Talking with Mike Wendling, US National Digital Reporter.
More than 50% of Americans get their news from social media sources like Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and even Tik Tok according to Pew Research.
March 30, 2023
We need to think critically. Talking with Helen Lee Bouygues, Founder and CEO of the Reboot Foundation.
Since most Americans get their news from
Social media sites where opinion masquerades as news, our ability to analyze, critique and make judgments based on facts is essential.
May 18, 2021
BBC Trending: Social Media watchdog. An interview with editor Mike Wendling
Media literacy is so important today since millions of Americans get their news from Social Media which unlike legacy press and TV is neither edited nor curated. Separating fact from fiction, conspiracy theory, falsehood and…
Nov. 25, 2020
Alt Tech meets the Free Speech Network: Social Media turns right.
Twitter, Facebook and the other big social media companies moved toward a curated speech, censorship model during the 2020 campaign. As a result an Alt Tech social media ecosystem has grown up emphasizing the importance of…
July 21, 2020
Tik Tok, a threat to US security. Really ?
Tik Tok the popular lip syncing video app has exploded in popularity globally during the Covid 19 lockdowns. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened to ban it in the US. India and Australia have already done so. Is…
July 12, 2020
Facebook: a free speech forum or an advertising surveillance app ?
The Social Media giant is weathering a month long boycott by some of its advertisers, a critical civil rights audit and controversy about political speech. Yet Mark Zuckerberg’s founding principles for Facebook remain: voice…
July 9, 2020
Disinformation and Fake News: How to spot it and How to avoid it.
With the 2020 Presidential election less than 4 months away, Social Media and with it Fake News stories will loom large no doubt, much as they did in 2016. The BBC has a dedicated weekly program called BBC Trending which fo…
May 28, 2020
Remoteotopia: A New World Order post Covid 19.
Does the Covid 19 pandemic represent an epochal inflection point in American history ? Will we look back on this time as one of those watershed moments of how things used to be so much better or worse ? Or will the confine…
May 22, 2020
Podcast 101: the What, Why, Who of podcasting.
Podcasting has become an important information medium in the last 15 years with Apple, Spotify, Google, Anchor, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio and iHeart Radio investing heavily in distribution. While barriers to entry are low, surv…