Covid-19 & Misinformation
May 29,2020
Table of Contents:
Articles via Nautilus, Prospect Magazine, BuzzFeed News, ProPublica, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, and Nature.
Book — The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall
Discussion — Noam Chomsky on the “Limits” of Knowledge & Thought with Bryan Magee
Documentary — Merchants of Doubt
Lecture — Naomi Oreskes at BYU Kennedy Center on Merchants of Doubt
Paper — How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks by James Owen Weatherall & Cailin O’Connor
Podcast — I Can’t Believe it’s Not News: A Podcast About Fake News, The Truth About Fake News
TED Talks — How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation; How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust; Fake news is about to get much worse. Here’s a solution.; How to see past your own perspective and find truth; Conspiracy Theories and the Problem of Disappearing Knowledge
Twittersphere — Ben Norton & Bonnie Bley
Website — IdeaMarkets.org & Golden.com