Filtering Through The Fake: Raising the Bar for Information Consumption

"I can filter out four or five star quality hotels and restaurants today. We can't do that with our personal information."

In this episode of the award-winning podcast series "Disinformation," host Paul Brandus discusses the need for safety standards in the information we consume. While there are regulations in place for the safety of our food, water, and air, there are none for the content we see just as often. Meredith Wilson, CEO of Emergent Risk International, delves into the challenge of discerning what is real in an era of misinformation. Tune in to this thought-provoking conversation on the need for safety standards in the content we engage with.

[00:01:54] Synthetic media and deepfakes.

[00:05:20] Regulating information and free speech.

[00:08:15] Social media and disinformation.

[00:15:07] Trust and information integrity.

[00:16:33] Information quality standards.

Got questions, comments or ideas or an example of disinformation you'd like us to check out? Send them to paulb@emergentriskinternational.com. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Special thanks to our guest Meredith Wilson, our sound designer and editor Noah Foutz, audio engineer Nathan Corson, and executive producers Michael DeAloia and Gerardo Orlando. Thanks so much for listening.