Disinformation research: a critique 


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Sep 19 2021 9 mins   3
This short podcast is not so much a criticism of disinformation research but rather a critique of the expectations around it – or possibly the unexamined expectations around it. I refer to these three articles. 1) https://www.npr.org/2021/08/04/1024791053/facebook-boots-nyu-disinformation-researchers-off-its-platform-and-critics-cry-f 2) https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/ 3) https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/facebook-sent-flawed-data-to-misinformation-researchers/ Music by Lesfm from Pixabay/ Image