Wonks and War Rooms

Season: 4 Episode: 2 Claire Wardle is a professor at Brown University and the co-founder of First Draft, a non-profit that focuses on misinformation and the tools needed to fight it. She and Elizabeth chat about information disorder, a term Claire helped coin. The term helps us think about issues related to mis- and dis- information as bigger than being about fact or not. Claire explains how it is actually much more important to think about the information environments people

Season: 4 Episode: 1 [Rebroadcast of S01 E08] Nasma Ahmed is the Director of the Digital Justice Lab and she helps Elizabeth unpack what exactly mis- and dis- information are, why we need to question content we see online, and how a lack of trust in larger political systems plays in. Additional Resources: First Draft has a number of very useful resources. Find some key definitions in Wardel's Fake news: It's complicated. Check out this three part series on The Psychology o

Season: 4 Trailer This season of Wonks and War Rooms is going to focus on mis- and dis- information. We'll talk about information disorder, political polarization, post-truth politics, and more! Tune in to hear from political strategists, journalists, public policy folks, and academics. Get caught up on past episodes and find fully annotated transcripts in English and French at https://www.polcommtech.com/. Episode Transcript: S04 Trailer - Season Four! Mis- and Dis- inf