What to do when combating misinformation gets personal
Marketplace Tech
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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When it comes to combating election-related misinformation online, sometimes the real world is the best place to start, but it isn’t always easy. On this week’s installment of “Marketplace Tech’s” limited series “Decoding Democracy,” Lily Jamali and senior Washington correspondent Kimberly Adams discuss the personal side of misinformation, take questions from colleagues and hear from experts about best practices for talking with loved ones about this sometimes sensitive topic.
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| 1:08.0 | How to have those hard conversations. From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Lily Dramale. Today, another installment of our limited series Decoding Democracy |
| 1:25.6 | where we're talking all about how tech and misinformation are shaping |
| 1:29.1 | elections across the country and around the globe this year and for for this one, I'm joined by Marketplace's senior Washington correspondent, |
| 1:35.0 | Kimberly Adams. |
| 1:36.0 | Nice to see you, Kimberly. |
| 1:38.0 | Nice to see you, Kimberly. Nice to see you, Lily. |
| 1:39.0 | Our focus today is how we talk to our friends and family about misinformation. |
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