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UNHACKING DEMOCRACY
A podcast that jumps down the rabbit-hole to explore the world of information manipulation in the social media age. It's an adventure that will take us from the fake news on your facebook page and the trolls on your twitter account to shady tech companies, machiavellian billionaires with dark money and darker motives, the psychology of online movements and how they can be subverted, and perhaps even find out whether there are any ways to cleanse our polluted information streams...
In this conversation Emilio and I talk about the extent to which it is possible to assess the degree of social media manipulation that is occurring and what we can say about the level of impact it is having on our democratic processes. We talk about what types of message spread fastest and furthest on social media and discuss some of the ways in which pressure could be put on social media companies to reduce fake news.