EPISODE · Mar 2, 2022 · 12 MIN
This Time, Maybe Facebook and Twitter Aren’t Enabling Putin So Much (But Tik Tok…)
from Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast · host WNYC Studios
We check in on the information landscape surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the role of social media platforms in the spread (or not) of misinformation. On Today's Show:Sinan Aral, MIT professor of management, marketing, IT and data science, director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the author of The Hype Machine (Currency, 2020), offers his perspective on why it appears that Ukraine is winning the information war through traditional and social media, despite Russia's historical success in controlling the narrative. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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We check in on the information landscape surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the role of social media platforms in the spread (or not) of misinformation.
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This Time, Maybe Facebook and Twitter Aren’t Enabling Putin So Much (But Tik Tok…)
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