Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates: How to Fight an Infodemic

Airs Sunday, June 14, 2020, at 6 p.m. As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, the World Health Organization warns about an information epidemic or “infodemic.” Eveiligent consumers of news are inundated with stats, graphs, press conferences, and think-pieces, as well as dubious data, miscredited quotations, and outright harmful claims. 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, join John Donvan for a special Discourse Disruptors episode.