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Podcast: Open to Debate
Episode: How to Fight an Infodemic
Description: As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, the World Health Organization is warning of the spread of something else ā an information epidemic or āinfodemic.ā And while diligent consumers of the news are inundated with stats, graphs, press conferences, and think-pieces, so too are they exposed to dubious data, miscredited quotations, and outright harmful claims. In this episode, John Donvan sits down with two leading experts in the spread of information, journalist and editor-in-chief of PolitiFactĀ Angie Drobnic HolanĀ and computer scientist and associate professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of WashingtonĀ KateĀ Starbird,Ā for a discussion...