The Wiczipedia Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nina Jankowicz | Wiczipedia
Eastern Europe in your earbuds. Nina Jankowicz brings you a monthly deep dive on what's up in the post-communist world, joined by some of the region's most knowledgeable and interesting experts.
Nina is joined by Ivana Smolenova of the Prague Security Studies Institute and Margo Gontar of StopFake to discuss the topic of the day/hour/year: Russian disinformation and its affect on our societies.
Recommended reading:
From Nina: https://wiczipedia.com/russian-disinformation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/03/31/our-biggest-mistake-in-the-fight-against-fake-news/?utm_term=.a3dfb62ef623
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/will-facebook-finally-fight-disinformation-or-just-make-things-worse
From/About Ivana: https://twitter.com/IvanaSmolenova
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2015/03/25/russias-propaganda-war/#77d26f2a5bf4
http://www.pssi.cz/publications/39-the-pro-russian-disinformation-campaign-in-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia.htm
About Margo and StopFake: https://twitter.com/margogontar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHZ7o3Hebc
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/world/europe/ukraine-kiev-fake-news.html
Nina is joined by journalist Christian Davies, who has been living in Poland during the past 18 months of political crisis that have embroiled the country. He explains what's been going on and why it matters for the larger democratic order.
Read more about Poland in Christian's long read for The Guardian, "The Conspiracy Theorists Who Have Taken Over Poland" - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/conspiracy-theorists-who-have-taken-over-poland
...and follow him on Twitter @crsdavies.
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Nina Jankowicz is joined by journalists Ilya Lozovsky (@ichbinilya) and Lili Bayer (@liliebayer) to discuss the dawn of the Trump era, what it means to American immigrants and their families, and why Trump's policies remind us more of post-Soviet autocratic states than of the United States that we know.
If you're looking for David Frum's "How to Build an Autocracy," check it out here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/
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