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TED Radio Hour

Listen Again: Warped Reality

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, Technology

4.321.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: October 30, 2020. False information on the internet makes it harder and harder to know what's true, and the consequences have been devastating. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas around technology and deception. Guests include law professor Danielle Citron, journalist Andrew Marantz, and computer scientist Joy Buolamwini.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Manoosh here.

0:02.0

I've got a question for you.

0:03.5

How do we sort misinformation from good information online?

0:08.0

And whose responsibility is it to help us figure that out?

0:13.0

Yeah, those are not easy questions

0:15.0

and they came up yet again recently

0:17.0

with a ruling from Facebook's Oversight Board.

0:20.0

This is a sort of independent body

0:23.0

which decided that Facebook was right to suspend Donald Trump

0:26.0

from posting information that incited violence on the platform

0:30.0

but that Facebook was wrong to make that suspension indefinite.

0:35.0

It's really easy to get bogged down in the details of these disputes.

0:40.0

But I think we need to remember there are big issues at stake

0:43.0

over how technology influences our actions

0:47.0

and what is real online.

0:49.0

And so today we want to bring back an episode from October called Warped Reality

0:54.0

and I have to say as a former tech reporter, I love this episode.

0:58.0

It features some of the smartest people out there

1:01.0

with ideas about how we build a future based on facts.

1:06.0

A quick note, this episode makes a couple references to sexual violence

1:10.0

which may be hard to hear.

1:12.0

Just want to give you a heads up before we get started.

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