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“In Reality” debunks fake news and elevates the innovative researchers, entrepreneurs, journalists and policymakers who are fighting back against toxic misinformation. Co-hosts Joan Donovan, research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media and Public Policy, and Eric Schurenberg, an award-winning journalist and former CEO of Fast Company, engage guests in enlightening conversations about solutions to this scourge and the path back to a shared reality.
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12 Years at War Against Misinformation - Renée DiResta. Author of 'Invisible Rulers'
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May 01, 2026 |
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The Kinds of Stories that Bridge Political Divides. Melody Mohebi (Democracy 2076) & Brian Waniewski (Harmony Labs)
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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You Are Not Thinking As Clearly As You Think - with 'Good Thinking' Author David Robert Grimes
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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In Democracy, You Can’t Avoid Conflicts. You Have To Just Do Them Better - Jonathan Stray
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Big Tech VS Euro Regulators - Guess Who's Winning. With John O'Brennan from Maynooth University in Ireland
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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A Sheriff for the Digital Wild West with Top Digital Crime Fighter Carole House
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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How AI Changes Voters' Minds with Oxford University's Kobi Hackenburg
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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We In The Press Could Do A Lot Of Things Better: Steve Peoples Chief Political Writer of The Associated Press
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Without Federal Funding, What is Public Media Really? KCRW President Jennifer Ferro
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Courtney Radsch: Information is an Ecosystem. Without Journalism, It Collapses
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Understanding The Stories That Divide Us with Harmony Labs' Brian Waniewski
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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How To Think Clearly About The News In Your Feed with 'Effective Thinking' Expert Michael Starbird
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Politics Without Polarization in Iowa with Governor Candidate Rob Sand (Democrat)
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Signs of Revival In Local News. No, Really! - Indiegraf's Erin Millar
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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"What Journalism Needs Now Is Not What Journalists Think" with Richard Gingras (Google & Village Media) and Tom Rosenstiel (UMD)
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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AI In The Newsroom: The Humanoid In The Loop with Perplexity AI's Jessica Chan and Troy Thibodeaux from the Associated Press
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Three Top Influencers on Building Trust Amid the Chaos: Kate Bacon, David Pakman, and Eric Newcomer
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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How Media Makes Money Today (It's Not Easy) with CEO of The Meteor Cindi Leive
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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What Are You Really Seeking When You Click On News? University of Delaware's Prof Dannagal Young
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May 22, 2025 |
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First Aid for the Local News Emergency with Local News Accelerator Mackenzie Warren (Northwestern University)
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May 08, 2025 |
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If News Is So Important, Why Can't It Make Money? with Historic Media Executive Norman Pearlstine
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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The Rise of the Personal Media Brand with Eric Newcomer Founder of the Newcomer Media Outlet
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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In Democracy, You Can’t Avoid Conflicts. You Have To Just Do Them Better, with Human-Compatible AI Expert Jonathan Stray
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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One Man’s Plan To Rebuild Atlanta’s Hometown Newsroom: The AJC’s President Andrew Morse
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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How To Talk With (& Listen To) The Other Side with 'The Fearless Conversationalist' Mónica Guzmán
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The Other AI Arms Race: "Defender" AI vs Deepfakes - Reality Defender CEO Ben Colman
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Why Influencers Have Trust and Journalists Don’t with 'The Future of Trustworthy Information' Author Julia Angwin
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Is Truth Dead? With Co-Founder of NewsGuard Steven Brill
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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How To Judge The Truth of Any Claim in 30 Seconds with Top Critical Thinking Expert Mike Caulfield
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Battered But Still Hopeful, The Guardians of a Civil Internet with Integrity Institute's Jeff Allen
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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One Way To Win An Information War with The Autocracy Expert Peter Pomerantsev
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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How To Stop Worrying and Love Media Bias with AllSides Co-founder John Gable
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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In A Less Misinformed World, Would Harris Have Won? With Top Journalists Paul Farhi, Nayeema Raza, and Isaac Saul
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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The Most Dishonest Campaign Ever? with Politifact's Katie Sanders
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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X, Lies, and Video Fakes in the 2024 Election with Nina Jankowicz and Yoel Roth
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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What The Polls Are Really Telling You with Pew Research Center's Jocelyn Kiley
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Media Bias: Left and Right with CNN's Brian Stelter and The Dispatch's Jonah Goldberg
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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How Free Societies Decide What's Real with Brookings Institution's Jonathan Rauch
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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The Original Fact Checker: How To Know What's True with The Post's Glenn Kessler (Election Repost)
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Is The Rise of MAGA a Failure of Journalism? The University of Texas at Austin's Tom Johnson
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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How To Immunize Your Mind Against False Beliefs with Carnegie Mellon University's Andy Norman
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Want to Understand Today’s Political Debate? Study PsyOps: Sci-fi Author & Science Journalist Annalee Newitzs
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Using the Tools of Tech to Hold Big Tech Accountable with Pulitzer-Winner & Proof News Founder Julia Angwin
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The Original Fact Checker: How To Know What's True with The Post's Glenn Kessler
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The Lost Art of Civil Discourse with Clea Conner CEO of Open to Debate
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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The Logic Behind Illogical Ideologies: Pepperdine University's Jason Blakely
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May 21, 2024 |
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Destroying The Internet In Order To Save It: Project Liberty's Frank McCourt
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May 07, 2024 |
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How Newsrooms Decide What's True: Former Editor of the Washington Post Martin Baron
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Saboteurs Within: University of Michigan's Barbara McQuade
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Why We're Losing the Misinformation War: The Information Futures Lab's Claire Wardle
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Stopping Misinformation At The Gate: News Literacy Project's Peter Adams
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Is News Negativity Driving Audiences Away? The Solutions Journalism Network's David Bornstein
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Who Killed Trust? And What Can We Do About It? The Center for Media Engagement at UT Austin's Talia Stroud
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Digital Disruption and the Myth of Mainstream Media: CEO of Fortune Media Alan Murray
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Can You Make A Profit Fighting Misinfo? NewsGuard's Gordon Crovitz
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Polarization's Ground Zero: Author of 'Network of Lies' Brian Stelter
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How To Know If You Can Trust That Story: The Trust Project's Sally Lehrman
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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How Fake History Ignites the Fake Present: Britain's Author of 'Fake History' and 'Fake Heroes' Otto English
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Why Don't The Advocates of Truth Work Together?
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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How To Make Advertising An Ally For Truth
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Tech Led Us Into The Misinfo Mess. Can It Lead Us Out?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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What We Really Look For When We Say We're Looking For Truth
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson: What To Believe (or not) in the News
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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How to Get People to Believe in Science Again
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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How to Build Immunity to Viral Misinformation
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Dublin Tech Summit 2023 | What Does Generative AI Mean For The Information Landscape?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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What’s Really Behind the Collapse of Trust in the Media
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Why Are Some Beliefs so Maddeningly Resistant to Evidence?
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May 16, 2023 |
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What if AI Could Literally Read Your Mind?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Why Good People Share Fake News — And How To Make Them Stop
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Why Polarization Turns Toxic - And How To Stop It
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Lonely Pursuit of Facts in a Post-Truth World
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Truth Decay: The Cause and The Treatment
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Why News Stopped Being “Just The Facts” (And Why That’s Good)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Week the Trolls Stormed Homeland Security
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Have We Been Wrong about What the Other Side Thinks?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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The Real Reason Social Media Grabs Us
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Defending Factuality in a World of Alternate Realities
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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How to Market Chaos
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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The Hidden World of Political Cults
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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What if Polarization is Actually an Illusion?
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Dismantling the Disinformation Economy
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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How Cambridge Analytica Opened the Pandora’s Box of Disinformation
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Combatting Domestic Terrorism with Melanie Smith
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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The elite’s blind spots and the illusion of truth with Gillian Tett
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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On the front lines of the disinformation fight with Áine Kerr
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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How to Build True Public Spaces Online with Eli Pariser
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Truth and Trade-offs amid a Polarized Pandemic with Dr Leana Wen
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May 31, 2022 |
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How We Know What’s True with Jonathan Rauch
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May 18, 2022 |
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A new definition of making America great again with Kathleen Belew
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May 03, 2022 |
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From optimism to doubt (and back) at Facebook with Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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The reboot that can save social media with Rob Reich
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Apr 05, 2022 |