Philip N. Howard - Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
Season 1, Episode 17, Jul 14, 2020, 09:39 PM
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Philip N. Howard is the Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and a Professor of Internet Studies at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. He investigates the impact of digital media on political life around the world. In this episode we ask, can countries defend against attack by cyber-bots or will democracy be sentenced to death by a thousand keystrokes in the wrong hands?
As governments consider more funding for virtual cyber armies over real boots on the ground, Richard Kilgarriff talks to one of the world's leading experts on the impact of digital media across the political spectrum. Why and how do troll armies invade our democracies and what can we do to defend ourselves against them?
Want to go deeper? Get a copy of Phil's book HERE
Want to go deeper? Get a copy of Phil's book HERE