How Do You Flatten the Curve?

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Rene Gys: We create the conceptual frameworks inside of people's brains to think about o virus. For every person who is infected with that idea, who believes it, they will infect a certain number of other people. As you click on things, as you like thingsy, you're shedding biases through it for other people. The more you contribute when you actually don't know what's true,. But how do you actually flatten the curve? We flatten the Curve by staying home.

How does disinformation spread in the age of COVID-19? It takes an expert like Renée DiResta to trace conspiracy theories back to their source. She’s already exposed how Russian state actors manipulated the 2016 election, but that was just a prelude to what she’s seeing online today: a convergence of state actors and lone individuals, anti-vaxxers and NRA supporters, scam artists and preachers and the occasional fan of cuddly pandas. What ties all of these disparate actors together is an information ecosystem that’s breaking down before our eyes. We explore what’s going wrong and what we must do to fix it in this interview with Renée DiResta, Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory.