Kate Starbird on Pandemics and Infodemics
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On this episode of Lawfare\'s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Kate Starbird, an Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She\\u2019s long done fascinating research about online disinformation and misinformation\\u2014and she\'s an expert in what\\u2019s called crisis informatics, or the study of how information flows during crisis events. For this conversation, they focused on one crisis in particular: Covid-19. They talked about the possibilities and dangers of social media and the internet in times of crisis, how communities make sense of disaster, and the anxiety of living in the world right now.
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