Michael Sugarman

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  • Username: msugarman
  • PRX Member
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Michael Sugarman

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How to Detect a Disinformation Campaign (26:18)
From: Michael Sugarman

Groups have been running disinformation campaigns on Facebook and Twitter for almost as long as those platforms have been popular. In this episode, we talk to Ray Serrato, ...
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Welcome to the Disinfo Industry (33:16)
From: Michael Sugarman

Are you contributing to a disinformation campaign without even knowing it? This week, we talk to Kate Starbird about unwillingly contributing to the spread of mis- and ...
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How Disease Conspiracy Theories Are Born (29:56)
From: Michael Sugarman

This week, we focus on COVID-19 misinformation, talking to Kolina Koltai, ethnographer of vaccine conspiracy theory communities; Jon Lee, a folklorist who studies the history ...
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What Are Mis- and Disinformation? (24:02)
From: Michael Sugarman

In our first episode, Camille François to tells us how researchers identify mis- and disinformation, and Joan Donovan from the Harvard Shorenstein Center explains how ...