Rationally Speaking #217 - Aviv Ovadya on "The problem of false, biased, and artificial news"
Sep 16, 2018•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Aviv Ovadya, an expert on misinformation, talks with Julia about the multiple phenomena that get lumped together as "fake news." For example, articles that are straightforwardly false, misleading, or artificially created (think "Deepfakes," videos that make a politician appear to say something he didn't say). Which of those problems are more dangerous for our civilization? Are any of them tractable? And what might a solution look like?
