Episode 8: Karen Kornbluh and Mark Scott

05/14/20 • 32 min

The Infotagion Podcast with Damian Collins MP

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.

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Episode 7: Guy Berger and Nina Jankowicz

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 9: Tristan Harris

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 tech can be used for good ever since. On this episode they talk about how much power the tech companies wield in the information space during this pandemic, and what can be done about it. Dr Charles Kriel revisits the confusion over COVID-19 death stats and John Quinlan describes how fake news about the ‘plandemic’ continues to crop up.