Episode 30: Renée DiResta and Tom Firth

09/02/20 • 37 min

The Infotagion Podcast with Damian Collins MP

Renée DiResta from the Stanford Internet Observatory was part of the investigative team for the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report into election interference. This week, she tells Damian Collins MP what they found when digging into the data. Tom Firth, Managing Director of M&C Saatchi discusses the revolution in advertising in a digital era.

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Episode 29: Jim Steyer

The Stop Hate for Profit campaign has been successful in persuading major brands like Adidas, Coca Cola and Unilever to pause their advertising on Facebook and demand the company does more to stop the spreading of harmful content. Jim Steyer, the founder and CEO of Commons Sense media, and one of the driving forces behind this campaign joins Damian to discuss Facebook regulation and more. Dr. Charles Kriel discusses Twitter’s moves to crack down on QAnon content.

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Episode 33: Nina Schick and Giorgio Patrini

What is the potential impact of deepfake technology on politics? How can people identify real films from ones which have been manipulated? Damian Collins MP is joined by Nina Schick, author of Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: what you urgently need to know.Giorgio Patrini, CEO of Deeptrace, discusses how his start-up works to defend people from the threat of deepfakes.