Spot the Troll: Social Media & the 2020 Campaign

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Katie and Jennifer Duck talk to Clemson University Professor Darren Linvill about social media and the 2020 campaign. Professor Linvill is a academic, an author, a researcher and an expert on social media disinformation and political discourse. As an Associate Professor in Clemson's Department of Communications, his research explores state sponsored social media disinformation and its influence on civil and political discourse. In addition to his academic publications, Dr. Linvill has written for The Washington Post and Rolling Stone. He and fellow Clemson Professor Patrick Warren created the Spot the Troll Quiz to help promote social media literacy. Take the Spot the Troll Quiz: https://spotthetroll.org/start Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	Have power and words have consequences.
0:33.1	Our guest today is a professor, an author, a researcher, and an expert on social media
0:39.8	disinformation and political discourse.
0:42.7	Darren Lindville is an associate professor at Clemson University in the Department of Communications.
0:49.2	His research explores state-sponsored social media disinformation and its influence on civil
0:54.6	and political discourse.
0:56.2	In addition to his academic publications, Dr. Limville has written for The Washington Post
1:02.1	and Rolling Stone. Darren Lindville, welcome to Words Matter.
1:06.0	Thanks for having me, Katie. It's great to be here.
1:08.1	And joining us again this week is Emmy Award-winning producer and Belmont University instructor Jennifer Duck.
1:16.4	Last week, Jen raised the important issue of misinformation and disinformation on social media
1:22.9	in the home stretch of the 2020 presidential campaign.
1:26.4	And we asked her to come back for a deeper dive.
1:29.8	Professor Lindville is her mentor at Clemson University, where Jen is completing her PhD.
1:34.8	So we thought it'd be informative to have them both on together to talk about this important topic.
1:40.4	Jen, thanks for joining us again this week.
1:43.0	So great to be here. Thanks for having me back.
1:45.9	All right, so let's dive in on October 28th, which is coming up soon.
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