As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, the World Health Organization is warning of the spread of something else – an information epidemic or “infodemic.” And while diligent consumers of the news are inundated with stats, graphs, press conferences, and think-pieces, so too are they exposed to dubious data, miscredited quotations, and outright harmful claims.
In this episode, John Donvan sits down with two leading experts in the spread of information, journalist and editor-in-chief of PolitiFact Angie Drobnic Holan and computer scientist and associate professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington Kate Starbird, for a discussion on how to be discerning communicators during a time of crisis.
About Discourse Disrupters
America feels divided. Hyper-partisanship and polarization are rampant. And we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other. Intelligence Squared U.S. is tackling the state of American public discourse head-on. In this special interview series, our host John Donvan sits down with the sharpest minds shaping our national discourse today. From the academy to the media to the world of politics, these top thinkers are disrupting American discourse in bold new ways. And we’re asking them how they do it.
Tune-in Wednesday, April 15th at 7 PM.