May 31, 2020
John Nicolson MP, the SNP’s spokesperson for for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport joins Damian Collins MP to discuss Twitter’s decision to call out Trump’s tweets and increased attacks on the media during the pandemic. Shakuntala Banaji, Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change at LSE describes the horrific...
May 26, 2020
What’s it like being a journalist or a fact checker during this pandemic? Claire Wardle, US Director of First Draft, talks about misinformation techniques she has been studying for years being writ large during coronavirus. Former BBC and Buzzfeed journalist Joey D’Urso unpacks the important relationship between the...
May 23, 2020
Is COVID disinformation being used to fuel existing geopolitical tensions and further certain political agendas? What misinformation trends should we be looking out for ahead of the 2020 US election? Phil Howard, Director of the Oxford Institute and Peter Pomerantsev, author of “This Is Not Propaganda” join Damian...
May 18, 2020
Tristan Harris, former Google insider and co-founder for the Centre for Human Technology joins Damian Collins MP. Damian first met Tristan while giving him a lift to the airport in Washington D.C. when he was there for the DCMS Committee’s fact-finding trip on Disinformation back in 2018. They’ve been discussing how...
May 14, 2020
Former OECD US Ambassador Karen Kornbluh and Mark Scott, Chief Technology Reporter at POLITICO join Damian Collins MP this week. In these times where COVID-19 misinformation is a matter of life or death, they discuss who’s responsible for stopping it and how journalists are navigating the pandemic. Dr Charles...