Kate Klonick and Alina Polyakova on Pandemics, Platform Governance and Geopolitics
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Quinta Jurecic speaks with Alina Polyakova and Kate Klonick, who both have expertise that can clarify our confusing current moment. Alina has been running a great series of virtual events at the Center for European Policy Analysis on disinformation and geopolitics during COVID-19. And Kate’s research on platform governance helps shed light on the aggressive role some tech platforms have been playing in moderating content online during the pandemic.
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| 1:11.6 | And I think what's been new in the COVID moment is that we've seen the Chinese move much more |
| 1:24.4 | aggressive way into this similar space, kind of launching this barrage of either conspiracy theories |
| 1:32.4 | or misleading information from known Chinese outlet that are often buttressed by Chinese officials. |
| 1:41.1 | And it's a difficult space that the platforms find themselves and what do you do with that? |
| 1:46.6 | Do you label them? Do you not give access to let's say Chinese officials to their platforms at all? |
| 1:55.1 | Because these platforms are blocked in China. But I think these are all kind of policy questions |
| 2:00.9 | that are coming up now in a way that we haven't seen before. And I think a lot of that has to do |
| 2:07.0 | with the fact that you know the Chinese have gotten much more into this game now. |
| 2:12.5 | I'm Quintedurusic and this is the Lafere podcast April 9th, 2020. |
| 2:19.3 | Today we're bringing you another episode of our Readers of Truth series on disinformation. |
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