Fighting Against Misinformation: A Conversation with MediaWise
Gamertag Radio
Gamertag Radio
4.2 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week on Gamertag Radio, Danny Peña and Riana Manuel-Peña sat down with the Director of MediaWise, Alex Mahadevan and Co-Founder and Host of LNI, Dave Jorgenson. In this episode we discuss how to spot misinformation, fake news, and AI deepfakes before they trap you. Tired of being misled? Want to protect your community? Learn to verify viral clips, understand algorithms, and engage in civil conversations from the experts.
Thanks to Mediawise for giving us the opportunity to share this episode with our GTR audience.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and Jim's gentlemen |
| 0:02.5 | This is Gamer Attack Radio |
| 0:04.5 | All right everyone |
| 0:06.5 | Thank you so much for joining us |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm here with a couple of guests here |
| 0:11.0 | From MediaWise |
| 0:13.6 | Alex |
| 0:14.1 | Are you doing Alex? |
| 0:16.1 | I'm doing really good |
| 0:17.8 | How are you all? |
| 0:20.4 | Good, good, good And also we have Dave here. Dave, tell us a little about yourself, man. |
| 0:25.1 | I know you've been doing this for a while, too. Not playing games, but... |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah, well, let me see. I first started playing Super Mario Bros. No, my name's Dave. I used to be a journalist of the Washington Post, and I started the TikTok account there. |
| 0:37.6 | And that's where I first became a media-wise ambassador, which is sort of the spottering this stream. |
| 0:42.9 | And since then I've gotten independent, you may have seen me on YouTube or TikTok or Instagram Reels with short-form videos, usually covering misinformation or some aspect of the news that people don't understand. |
| 0:52.5 | So I'm excited. I'll bring that expertise to the call, and then everything else is just going to don't understand. So I'm excited. I'll bring that |
| 0:54.6 | expertise to the call and then everything else is just going to be following Danny so I don't |
| 0:58.4 | run into a storm and die. Thanks for joining us. And also we have Rihanna here. Actually, |
| 1:04.6 | she is going to be playing with us too. And we're going to be talking about a lot of topics here |
| 1:10.6 | about misinformation and all that stuff. I didn't actually introduce myself. Like, Dave got to to be playing with us too and we're going to be talking about a lot of topics here about |
| 1:11.0 | misinformation all that stuff so i didn't actually introduce myself like dave got to do a big |
| 1:15.6 | uh big introduction and i'm just like i'm alex mahadavon i work at media wise which is a media |
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