MisInformation Nation: Recent Episodes
Christopher
We are combatting fake news, media bias and conspiracy theories.Information is as readily available as ever. But more than ever, you can't believe everything you hear. The internet and even the mainstream media is full of bias, disinformation and misinformation. MisINformation Nation arms you with deeper insight to the information about the world you live in today, with the views not always on the news.
President Biden began and ended his Reelection campain this summer, deemed to be too old to run.
But should there be an maximum age for doing anything, and should that include being President of the United States?
Donald Trump says the justice system has been weaponised against him.
Such interference would be the anti-democratic if it were true. But is Trump the one to protect democracy?
The War in Gaza has touched people around the globe. There have been tragic deaths, abductions and displacements of innocent people on both sides. So why should we choose a side in the conflict? The media seems to be leading us this way. Should we follow?
The deal to buy Twitter gives Elon Musk the right to call himself the champion of Free speech. BUt do we need to be careful what we wish for?
Media stories about refugees seem to either bring out our strongest humanitarian instincts or appeal to our basic instincts to view them as 'the other'. In the background of the war in Ukraine, we analyse the ways that the media's effect on public opinion and the outcomes that has for different victims of different wars.
The truckers convoy and occupation of Canada's capital city was an attempt to force the government to end Covid restrictions and proof of vaccine requirements.
The American media coverage of this protest was so skewed, that American opinion on the protest reflected the values of America's media machine, rather the values and the realities of the country where the protest was held.
We know that something significant happened on Jan. 6th at the seat of America's democracy, but a controversy even over what we should call it says something very telling about how the nation's media coverage is underpinning the nation's divisions.