Fighting the Covid infodemic

Mar 24, 2021 · 27m 17s
Fighting the Covid infodemic
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As the UK marks one year since the start of the first lockdown, Amol joins the BBC World Service programme World Questions to take questions from listeners around the globe....

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As the UK marks one year since the start of the first lockdown, Amol joins the BBC World Service programme World Questions to take questions from listeners around the globe. His expert panel assesses how well the media has covered the pandemic and whether fake news and misinformation has influenced public behaviour.

Guests: Nick Pickles, Senior Director of Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter, Zeynep Tufekci, sociologist and writer, Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, and Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organisation

Producers: Helen Towner and Charlie Taylor

Studio Engineers: Ronan Loftus and Duncan Hannant

This edition of The Media Show is an edited version of the BBC World Service programme, World Questions, first broadcast on 24 March 2021.
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