Wow - wendy hui kyong chun summarising 1.5 days of our Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy conference, giving the audience the crucial ideas that link our conversation. How do we rebuild trust in post-truth societies? The answer, she argues, is more complicated. 🔥🔥🔥

Our annual report for 2023-24 is now live! 📗

From policy partnerships to podcasts, this report celebrates the work of our centre, our team and our excellent researchers.

Read more about our busiest year yet, and our ambitions for the future:

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HUGE CONGRATS to Hannah Bailey for landing exciting faculty post as Assistant Professor in IR + Emerging Technologies at CMIST!

This will be a fab platform for her in the years ahead!

Check out her work with Programme on Democracy and Technology:

demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/team/hannah-ba…

Fabulous new consensus building eval from Sander van der Linden and American Psychological Association colleagues reviewing the lit on the psychology of health #misinformation , and making the case for a broadly inclusive definition that should help us all craft impact metrics.

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How is the spread of #misinformation shifting globally, and what can journalists do about it?🤔

We hear from Comunicaciones digital information landscape expert Sebastián Valenzuela.

'Other than content labeling & fact-checking, we don't have a lot of scientific evidence of what really works.'

🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE

'Toward Cross-disciplinary Consensus About Our (Mis)Information Environment'

CASBS fellows Dr Angela Aristidou ('22-23) & Phil Howard ('08-09) discuss modes of collaboration needed to fully grasp complex information ecosystems

👂 stanford.io/49lkQli

An interesting lecture coming up from #IPIE colleague Fredrick Ogenga on 'Pan-African Digital Peacebuilding' in Basel.

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Fab piece Raquel Vazquez Llorente on how disrupted research APIs threatens our use of social media for good in complex humanitarian disasters--and in protecting human rights.

techpolicy.press/how-musks-twit…

This work is a priority for many researchers, and especially for the #IPIE affiliates.

Guests include Sen. Michael Bennet, Tristan Harris, Rep. Rep. Jay Obernolte, Phil Howard of the #IPIE , ian bremmer, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (also on sky and mount). Together, they explore what it might mean to codify a regulatory system that creates safety without stifling ingenuity. apple.co/3DbDWvt

An excellent rundown of the chilling effects on information science.

Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why nature.com/articles/d4158…

Packed hall for #WIConf23 Weizenbaum-Institut !!

weizenbaum-institut.de

Looking forward to today's keynote from Petra Molnar