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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney: The Infodemic
Description: As COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship. The Infodemic lays bare not just the use of old-fashioned censorship, but also how âcensorship through noiseâ enhances the traditional means of state control (such as jailing critics and restricting the flow of information) by using a flood of misinformation to overwhelm the public with lies and half-truths.Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney, who have been defending press freedom and journalistsâ rights worldwide for many years as the directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, chart the onslaught of COVID censorshipâbeginning in China, but spreading through Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Bra...