Taking Matter in Our Own Heads

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During the time of the election, there was some rising thread indicators inside a face bookt i fi what they call it? I think it's called violence unrest indicators d thre wis a forty five % increase in election related violence. Do you have any insight into kind of how the platforms were looking at these trents? No, i don't. That's a good question of a facebook. So no, i really can't tell you what is it that rlooking at? What does the catergory mean in their own book, and what indicators they're using to measure it? Now let's turn to number two.

Disinformation researchers have been fighting two battles over the last decade: one to combat and contain harmful information, and one to convince the world that these manipulations have an offline impact that requires complex, nuanced solutions. Camille François, Chief Information Officer at the cybersecurity company Graphika and an affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, believes that our common understanding of the problem has recently reached a new level. In this interview, she catalogues the key changes she observed between studying Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and helping convene and operate the Election Integrity Partnership watchdog group before, during and after the 2020 election. “I'm optimistic, because I think that things that have taken quite a long time to land are finally landing, and because I think that we do have a diverse set of expertise at the table,” she says. Camille and Tristan Harris dissect the challenges and talk about the path forward to a healthy information ecosystem.