Fake News is Solvable
Solvable
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Anne Applebaum talks to Renée DiResta about building a more trustworthy Internet.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey, I'm Dr. Maya Shunker. |
| 0:06.3 | I host a podcast called A Slight Change of Plans that combines behavioral science and storytelling |
| 0:11.7 | to help us navigate the big changes in our lives. |
| 0:14.9 | I get so choked up because I feel like your show and the conversations are what the world needs, encouraging, empowering counter-programming that acts like a lighthouse when the world feels dark. |
| 0:30.3 | Listen to a slight change of plans wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:46.6 | Bushkin. I'm Maeve Higgins, and this is Solvable. |
| 0:53.0 | Interviews with the world's most innovative thinkers who are working to solve the world's biggest problems. |
| 1:00.5 | In this episode, Anne Applebaum is in conversation with researcher and data analyst Renee DeResta about her solvable, which is the growing spread of dangerous misinformation online, |
| 1:06.7 | especially on social media. |
| 1:08.7 | For the most solvable, I think we need increasing awareness, increasing cooperations, |
| 1:14.3 | helping algorithms make better decisions, recognizing that recommendation engines are not |
| 1:20.6 | functioning as they should and that we should be taking tangible steps to think about |
| 1:24.3 | ways in which algorithmic curation serves information to people. |
| 1:28.3 | In late 2016, Oxford Dictionary selected post-truth as their word of the year, defining it as relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal |
| 1:47.5 | belief. It's like, I want to believe that nachos are the ideal balanced nutritional snack. That |
| 1:54.1 | appeals to my emotional and personal belief system because God I love nachos. So I'll go and I'll |
| 2:00.4 | find some vague chit chatchat online that tells me, |
| 2:03.5 | you know something, melted cheese is totally full of calcium, that is good for your bones, |
| 2:08.3 | and it's important for you as an immigrant to the US to assimilate by eating their national dish of nachos. |
| 2:15.2 | So I'll convince myself of that. And I'll maybe even eat myself into a delicious early grave. |
| 2:22.8 | The age we live in, the digital age, affects every narrative we see and absorb, and that can be |
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