Episode 11: Mapping Misinformation and Russian Influence Online – with Data Journalist Jonathan Albright
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English - April 25, 2018 19:06 - 40 minutes - 93.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsScience Technology aerospace science aviation climate earth environment flying milesobrien milestogo moon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Top US intelligence agencies agree that Russia meddled in the 2016 US Presidential election using an organized campaign of online trolling and misinformation. The details of exactly how are harder to uncover. Jonathan Albright, data journalist and Research Director at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, studies information flow in networks. Recently, he has been mapping how Russian propaganda spreads on the web. I sit down with Albright on this episode of Miles To Go.