Go offline with the Player FM app!
Disinformation is rampant. A new book guides us through what to do.
Manage episode 422895480 series 1541431
Disinformation, spread far and wide online, threatens the health of a democracy. But a new book offers prescriptions for how to counter disinformation.
The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World-And What We Can Do About It is a new book chronicling how wild conspiracy came to be so widely embraced.
Author Steven Brill joins us to discuss the book. Brill is an attorney, an entrepreneur and a journalist. He is also the founder of Court TV, American Lawyer Magazine and several other businesses, including NewsGuard, which he co-founded in 2018, an organization that attempts to monitor the vast amounts of misinformation coursing through the internet.
Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.
227 episodes
Manage episode 422895480 series 1541431
Disinformation, spread far and wide online, threatens the health of a democracy. But a new book offers prescriptions for how to counter disinformation.
The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World-And What We Can Do About It is a new book chronicling how wild conspiracy came to be so widely embraced.
Author Steven Brill joins us to discuss the book. Brill is an attorney, an entrepreneur and a journalist. He is also the founder of Court TV, American Lawyer Magazine and several other businesses, including NewsGuard, which he co-founded in 2018, an organization that attempts to monitor the vast amounts of misinformation coursing through the internet.
Email us at midday@wypr.org, tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.
227 episodes
All episodes
×Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.