50: Fake News and the Coronavirus: how should we respond? – Saving Europe From Itself

In the last of our Saving Europe From Itself series, Luke Cooper is joined by Carl Miller, research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos and author of The Death of the Gods: the New Global Power Grab. As the global pandemic is combined with an infodemic, a proliferation of fake or misleading viral news stories, Miller offers 7 rules for digital hygiene: to stay informed, stay educated and stay smart.  

For further material on issues covered in today's show check out: 

A long read from Carl Miller for Wired 

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-media 

Can Taiwan reboot democracy? A doc for the BBC 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbCZvU7i7VY