S1E74 / Techno-Racism & COVID at Home & Abroad / Mutale Nkonde, Corin Faife, Heidi Larson, Imran Ahmed

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

KFF Health News and Just Human Productions

Society & Culture, #Eradication, Medicine, #Covid, Science, Life Sciences, #Sarscov2, Documentary, #Coronavirus, #Covid19, Health & Fitness, #Smallpox

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

"They benefit from traffic no matter if it's good information or malignant misinformation. " -Imran Ahmed During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can't get COVID or denying the pandemic is even real. In this episode, we’re going to hear more about how these disinformation networks are gaming social media algorithms. We'll hear how the United States has become a hub for disinformation exported around the world, and what legislators need to do to tackle bad actors. This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you. #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

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0:00.0	They benefit from traffic, no matter if it's there to look at good information or malignant
0:18.2	misinformation.
0:20.2	Stories are really powerful means of communication and this is where the gap between science and
0:26.8	the public's I think is the biggest.
0:39.6	You're listening to Epidemic, the podcast about the science, public health, and social
0:43.6	impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
0:45.9	I'm your host, Dr. Saline Kounder.
0:56.9	Disinformation has always been a problem since the beginnings of the internet, but it reached
1:07.0	a fever pitch during the 2016 presidential election.
1:11.1	Robert Mueller's investigation into election interference found some surprising results
1:15.6	about where that disinformation was aimed.
1:19.2	One of the major findings that came out of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller
1:25.9	into election interference where the African-Americans were the most targeted by disinformation
1:32.3	in the 2016 election.
1:35.0	This is Mutale and Kounder, she's the founder of AI for the People.
1:39.1	It's a nonprofit organization whose research focuses on how technology impacts the lives
1:44.4	of black people from voter turnout to vaccine confidence.
1:48.4	And what was happening according to the report was Russian agents were creating false
1:54.8	online communities.
1:57.0	The goal of these disinformation campaigns in 2016 was to depress the black vote in swing
2:02.2	states.
2:03.2	The campaigns would focus on an accepted truth and then springboard into something controversial.
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