Unmasking Disinformation: Lessons from History

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Introducing Unchecked, the podcast about the architecture of disinformation. Exaggerations, misinformation, and falsehoods seem to be everywhere these days. No domain, no online space, no information ecosystem is safe from this invasive species. Dan and Rachel, two professional information architects, turn their attention to this growing threat in the hopes of developing strategies and methods for building better systems.

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Topics:

• Snopes teaches us the challenge of checking sources
• Disinformation in history: The role of misinformation in spreading influenza in 1918
• Disinformation today: LA fires and water “shortages”
• Defining disinformation
• Defining information architecture, and positioning it relative to disinformation
• Our objectives for this podcast

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Sources:

• AP article covering misinformation in the LA Fires
• Scripps News article about the use of disinformation in the 1918 Influenza pandemic

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Personnel:

• Dan Brown, Host
• Rachel Price, Host
• Emily Duncan, Editor

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Music:

• Turtle Up Fool, by Elliot

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Personnel

• Dan Brown, Host
• Rachel Price, Host
• Emily Duncan, Editor

Music

• Turtle Up Fool, by Elliot

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Unchecked is a production of Curious Squid

Curious Squid is a digital design consulting firm specializing in information architecture, user experience, and product design