Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists | Andrew Marantz

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Journalist Andrew Marantz spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls and social media propagandists, seeking out the people who are propelling fringe talking points into the heart of conversation online and trying to understand how they're making their ideas spread. Go down the rabbit hole of online propaganda and misinformation -- and learn how we can start to make the internet less toxic. After the talk, our host Shoshana shares some scientific insights on how social media interacts with your brain’s wiring. We love making TED Health, and we want to make it better. So if you have a few minutes, share your thoughts at surveynerds.com/ted

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.8	Hello and welcome to Ted Health, part of the Ted Audio Collective.
0:15.7	I'm Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
0:18.0	This week we're listening to a talk from Andrew Moran's, who embedded himself in the
0:22.8	far corners of the internet to see how trolls and propagandists actually get online misinformation
0:29.5	to spread.
0:31.5	After the talk, stick around to hear about some of the cognitive science behind social media
0:35.4	platforms and how they capitalize on our brain's natural wiring.
0:49.2	Get ready to geek out!
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1:05.4	That's Wired Science, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:10.0	I spent the past three years talking to some of the worst people on the internet.
1:14.9	Now, if you've been online recently, you may have noticed that there's a lot of toxic
1:20.2	garbage out there, racist memes, misogynist propaganda, viral misinformation.
1:26.9	So I wanted to know who was making this stuff.
1:28.5	I wanted to understand how they were spreading it.
1:31.0	Ultimately, I wanted to know what kind of impact it might be having on our society.
1:34.6	So in 2016, I started tracing some of these memes back to their source.
1:39.6	Back to the people who were making them or who were making them go viral.
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