Episode 7: Guy Berger and Nina Jankowicz

05/10/20 • 38 min

The Infotagion Podcast with Damian Collins MP

How much COVID-19 misinformation is out there and who’s responsible for taking action against it? Would auditing how misinformation spreads prepare us for future infodemics? Damian Collins MP discusses with Guy Berger, Director of Freedom of Expression and Media Development at UNESCO, and Nina Jankowicz, academic and author of new book How To Lose the Information War. John Quinlan and Dr Charles Kriel put Alan Sugar on the fake news ‘naughty’ list.

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Episode 6: Nate Erskine-Smith MP and Charlie Angus MP

Members of the House of Commons in Canada, Nate Erskine-Smith and Charlie Angus join Damian Collins MP this week. They discuss Canada’s strategy for managing the virus, privacy concerns around track and trace apps and whether the International Grand Committee (of which they famously first took part in November 2018) could one day virtually reconvene.

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Episode 8: Karen Kornbluh and Mark Scott

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 Kriel unpacks the confusion around whether children can get the coronavirus and John Quinlan gives the latest update from Infotagion.