The Disinformation Age

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Something about the structures of online social discourse is changing us. Thi Nguyen sees similarities with the gaming world. Plus the 'expert finding' problem and more.

Digital disinformation on the social web is not confined to the US and Britain. In this episode Gephi digital social networks visualisation expert Erin Gallagher discusses her findings from Mexico, Honduras and other countries in the region.

For more information and to access the show notes, visit mikehind.co.uk

For more information and to access the show notes, visit mikehind.co.uk

For more information and to access the show notes, visit mikehind.co.uk

Mike and John discuss the 'rootless' nature of the internet and the difficulties that poses to reaching the sources of information pollution. The explosion of pro-'Remain' accounts on Twitter and the problem of low quality news aggregation sites is also covered.For more information and to access the show notes, visit mikehind.co.uk

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Fake news may have reached the mainstream, as a story, but experts in the field of combating disinformation are now thinking far beyond that. In this episode we catch up with delegates and presenters at the Misinfocon event, held in London in October, to hear about some of the latest developments aimed at fixing a 'post-truth' information environment.

Mike Hind and John Gray discuss the apparent astroturfing of anti-Uber sentiment by the London taxi industry and reveal a 'pornopolitical' Bot of the Week.

Logical Campaign Twitter friend, Trumpkin Chris Bowen, turns out to be not so keen on questions. In this episode we hear how Logical Campaign destroyed all of its visible online assets when this podcast broke the story of how it branded real journalists as 'fake', while operating from within a network of entirely fictitious business entities.We discuss a Logical Campaign Twitter friend, Chris Bowen, and hear how some of his online assets disappeared after their veracity was challenged. Chris also put in an appearance in the anti-Islamic astroturfing of social media after the Parsons Green bomb, in London, in September 2017. John and Mike discuss his apparent interest in British current affairs, tweeting from his vantage point in the town of Mystic, Connecticut.Other images below relate to the rest of the discussion between Mike and John in this episode. Grammy balloted musician Chris Bowen shows a certain lyrical bent in his astroturfing after the Parsons Green bomb attack. The following Mentionmapps show Chris Bowen's Twitter networks in more detail. Chris Bowen is fond of hash tags. These are his recent favourites. At the time of this snapshot @RealBowensWharf had used 279 unique hash tags over the previous ten days. Katie Hopkins may be real - but much of what she has to say is amplified by bots. Quite a lot of engagement on this tweet from a more left wing perspective appeared to be 'programmatic'. Astroturfing isn't only done by the right. Shadid - our 'bot of the week'. Visit Mentionmapp to discover the power of Twitter network visualisation - for brands, individuals and organisations who want to better understand the online conversation around the issues they care about.Read the Mentionmapp blog on Medium.And follow Mentionmapp on Twitter.Mike Hind is @MikeH_PR there.If you enjoy this podcast, please share it.

In this episode of The Disinformation Age we look at the story of Logical Campaign and its apparent connection with the trolling of influential journalists.

Setting the scene for our future work and a heads up on a story that will unfold over time. It's about an apparent multi-platform network of social media accounts that connect across Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. A fake information network that appears to be run by two real people.