The Fog of War: Navigating Disinformation Now

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 9 a.m.

b'Social media has been inundated with disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war \\u2014 from a flood of graphic visual content, to unsubstantiated claims and opportunistic content generation (and monetization) by third parties to this conflict.\\nTo make sense of this fog of war, we turn to a panel that brings together a reporter, a researcher and a former Facebook/Meta insider: Shayan Sardarizadeh is a senior disinformation journalist with the BBC, Ren\\xe9e DiResta is a research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Katie Harbath spent 10 years as the public policy director at Facebook. Together, they unpack how we got here \\u2013 and how we might seek clarity in a moment fogged by intense emotion, unfolding information and immense complexity.\\nQuestions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on social media. We\\u2019re on Instagram/Threads as @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza\\xa0\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'