389 - The Perfect Storm Behind Ongoing COVID-19 Misinformation
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Where are we now on combating mis- and disinformation about COVID and vaccines that has run rampant online since the early days of the pandemic? Clint Watts and Rachel Chernaskey of Miburo, a digital consulting company that focuses on misinformation and extremism, talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the current ecosystem of persisting misinformation, where we are in terms of combating purveyors, and what can be done on the individual, local, and societal level to drown out harmful noise.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.9 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, the topic is misleading |
| 0:52.2 | and false information online and what can be done to stop it. |
| 0:56.7 | Josh Sharfstein speaks to Clint Watts and Rachel Chernasky of Moeboro, a digital consulting |
| 1:02.1 | company that focuses on misinformation and extremism. Let's listen. |
| 1:07.1 | Clint Watts and Rachel Tarnaski, thank you so much for joining me on public health on call to talk about misinformation. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you, Josh. Thanks for having us. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, thanks for having us. |
| 1:17.6 | So I want to start with you, Clint. |
| 1:19.6 | With a general question, what is going on with misinformation in the world today? |
| 1:26.6 | And I mean a general question. |
| 1:28.5 | Yes. |
| 1:29.3 | I think there's two things to think about it. |
| 1:31.6 | One is the system by which you're delivered misinformation, |
| 1:34.7 | and second is people's cognitive vulnerabilities to misinformation. |
| 1:39.5 | And it's kind of two parts. |
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