Interweaving

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Interweaving #28 - Bill Yousman on the Dangers of COVID Disinformation
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Interweaving #28 - Bill Yousman on the Dangers of COVID Disinformation

In this episode of Interweaving, host John Collins talks with media scholar Bill Yousman (Sacred Heart University) about recent trends in disinformation in the age of COVID and mass school shootings. They discuss how claims of secret conspiracies, facilitated by social media algorithms, can manipulate even the most critical media analysts and deflect attention away from much-needed structural analysis of corporate and state power.

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