Disinformation has been used as a tool of industry, using scientists (and not so much science) to give credibility to their message. Now, social media can bypass science altogether, with disinformation often taking center stage. “Lies have a corrosive effect on not just our democracy, but our capacity to relate to each other in a community.” – Joan Donovan (pictured above)
Click above to listen to part 2 of Skeptic Check: Shared Reality, featuring Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and leader of the Technology and Social Change Project, Lee McIntyre, Research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University, Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School, and author of “Post – Truth,” and Steven Hassan, Mental health counselor who has written on the subject of mind control. Former member of the Unification Church, and author of “The Cult of Trump.”
Skeptic Check: Shared Reality:
Part 1: Disinformation Creation
Part 2: Disinformation Dissemination
Part 3: Disinformation Eradication
