The Fifth Floor: The disinformation wars

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

How is disinformation created and spread, and how is it impacting the way journalists work? We'll look at what's going on in Latin America, Russia and Nigeria with the help of three World Service journalists: Luis Fajardo is a senior editor with BBC Monitoring, covering South American media; Olga Robinson, also with Monitoring, is a disinformation analyst specialised in Russian affairs; and Olaronke Alo is part of the Disinformation Unit in Nigeria.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:04.0	This is
0:05.0	You're
0:08.0	You're actually
0:09.0	the fifth floor.
0:10.0	The fifth floor is
0:13.0	this is the same thing.
0:15.0	To me is the fifth floor
0:17.0	fornak and me this obat.
0:21.0	This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC
0:26.3	journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Parenak Amidi. these days it's so hard to know what is real and what is not, especially on social media.
0:37.0	These days it's so hard to know what is real and what is not, especially on social media. Have a listen to this clip and
0:46.6	see if you can recognize this voice.
0:49.4	Republicans have been trying to push nonpartisan and Democratic voters to participate in their primary.
0:55.8	What a bunch of malarkey.
0:57.7	This sounds like U.S. President Joe Biden, but it isn't Joe Biden. It's a deep fake, a piece of audio that's been
1:07.2	manipulated to make it sound just like him. Deep fakes are one of the latest tools in disinformation wars, but not the only one. In this
1:18.7	episode we'll talk about how disinformation is created and spread around the world
1:24.4	with the help of three experts.
1:27.2	In this studio with me is Alga Robinson,
1:30.1	disinformation analyst with BBC monitoring, she specializes in Russian affairs.
1:35.2	And in Miami we have Louise Fajardo, also from BBC Monitoring, but he looks at stories coming
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