The Baby Aguana - The Intrepid Baby Agana

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Ndow: There is no easy top down authority that can get n rod information inputs, and then, like world war too, hierarchical command in control push truth right back down the stack. Ndow: I think if we calm down our information environment so that only those are sharing when they actually have the expertise, and creating incentives for that,. Ren: How can we all not be just eager to contribute with certainty about what we know to be true? We actualydon't know anything about science r repedemeology or how virus is spread.

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.