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DISINFORMED: Meghan Markle has been the target of a racist harassment campaign
Season 2 Episode 8
Research is clear that Black women are disproportionately the targets of online harassment. And even though she’s rich and famous, the story Meghan M…
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: What Vanessa Guillen can teach us about disinformation
Season 2
A few weeks ago, we spoke to Meghna Mahadevan, Chief Disinformation Defense Strategist at United We Dream, the country’s largest immigrant youth led …
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: Meet the activist using data science to fights Nazis
Season 2 Episode 7
Activist Emily Gorcenski uses her data science background to track and combat Nazis and white supremacists. She explains why the dangerous work of re…
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: Republicans are leaning into transphobia
Next week, we’ll hear from Emily Gorcenski, an activist who uses her data science background to fight Nazis (seriously!)
This work isn’t easy and Emil…
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: Immigrant communities are facing a flood of disinformation
Season 2 Episode 6
Meghna Mahadevan is Chief Disinformation Defense Strategist at United We Dream, the country’s largest immigrant youth led organization. She explains …
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: Facebook’s bans news in Australia is silencing activists
Season 2
Facebook’s hasty ban on all news content in Australia has already had far reaching consequences. Digital organizer and founder of OrganiseUs, Tabatha…
5 years, 1 month ago
Pay Us What You Owe: Why Black Women in Tech are Tired
Season 2 Episode 5
Ifeoma Ozoma pioneered groundbreaking work to keep dangerous health misinformation off Pinterest, even before we were in a pandemic. But it came at g…
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: Slowing down on Social Media
Season 2
In this week’s episode, Pen America’s Nora Benavidez talked about how slowing down on social media is a concrete step anyone can take to curb disinfo…
5 years, 1 month ago
DISINFORMED: Is kicking Trump off Twitter censorship? (Spoiler: IT’S NOT)
Season 2 Episode 4
It's the first day of Trump’s second impeachment trial. And no matter what happens, it’s clear he used social media to threaten our democracy with di…
5 years, 2 months ago
DISINFORMED: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a coordinated disinfo attack
Season 2
AOC took to Instagram Live to share her story of being in the Capitol complex during the insurrection. But now she's at the center of a coordinated r…
5 years, 2 months ago