Misinformation By Design

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. We’ve an action packed agenda this week. We’re talking about Stop Funding Heat and climate misinformation on Facebook.  In charity news of the week we discuss the way that terror attacks are reported on the news. Facebook is overhauling the facial recognition on its platform due to fears of “misuse”. If Facebook is worried, it must be bad. And we end on a heart warming story about a soothing radio for dogs on bonfire night. Host Bex is joined by Tech for Good Live podcast team members Greg Ashton and Jonny Rae-Evans. Our special guest is Andrew Wilding-Smith, Product lead at Parkinsons UK. This week’s topics: Stat of the week  An estimated range of 818,000 and 1.36 million daily views of climate misinformation on Facebook. Up to 13.6 times more views of misinformation than Facebook claims to send to its Climate Science Center: #InDenial – Facebook’s Growing Friendship With Climate Misinformation - Stop Funding Heat  Charity news of the week Survivors against terror call for changes to the way the media report on terror attacks - The Guardian Tech news of the week Facebook ends facial recognition on its platform and deletes records citing the potential risks of misuse - The Guardian And yet they can't protect children - MSN And finally… Soothing music for our furry friends over bonfire night - Oxford Mail ---------------------------- Listeners, what did you think? We’d love to hear your thoughts.  Get in touch on twitter @techforgoodlive or Email at [email protected]  We’d love it if you gave us a nice iTunes review and told your pals about this podcast! Thanks to podcast.co for hosting our podcast.  Also, please don't forget this podcast is run by volunteers and we survive on sponsorships and donations. Right now one of our primary goals is to make sure all of our podcast episodes are accessible by making sure EVERY episode is transcribed. Sadly this costs money and we desperately need your help to make this become a reality! So if you've ever tuned into one of our podcasts or attended one of our events please consider chipping in the price of a cup of coffee.