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Drilled Presents: Living Planet on Disinformation

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Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Living Planet is a podcast and radio program from Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW). Hosted by Charli Shield and Sam Baker, each week Living Planet reports on environment stories from around the world. In this episode of Living Planet, host Sam Baker speaks with three experts on climate disinformation about how factually inaccurate and misleading information travels around the web. Climate journalist Stella Levantesi, communication researcher John Cook and Wikimedia strategist Alex Stinson participated in this engaging round-table, which originally was broadcast as a live discussion. More Living Planet episodes are available at: pod.link/livingplanet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today I'm bringing you an episode that I know drilled listeners will appreciate from a show called Living Planet.

0:06.7

Living Planet is a podcast from Germany's International Broadcaster, D.W.

0:11.2

hosted by Sand Baker and Charlie Shield.

0:13.9

On this episode of Living Planet that we're sharing with you today,

0:17.5

three experts on climate disinformation discuss how factually inaccurate and misleading information

0:23.6

travels around the web.

0:30.0

D.W. Living Planet with Sand Baker.

0:43.3

Hello and welcome to a special edition of Living Planet.

0:47.5

Earlier this week I had the great pleasure of hosting a live discussion via Twitter spaces

0:52.7

with expert panelists from around the world. We talked about climate disinformation

0:58.8

and we discussed how and why this factually inaccurate and misleading information

1:04.0

about climate change moves around the web.

1:07.3

We also talked about what needs to be done about it. Here's that conversation.

1:19.1

Today we thought we'd bring this conversation online as we will very appropriately be talking

1:24.7

about climate information and misinformation and how it spreads around the internet.

1:30.1

Joining me to break this all down and share their research and insights on the topic.

1:35.9

We've got John Cook, who is a postdoctoral research fellow with the climate change communication

1:42.1

research hub at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He's also founded the Climate Science

1:49.2

Blog skeptical science and created the cranky uncle game, which I'm sure we'll talk more about later.

1:55.2

Overall his research focuses on using critical thinking to build resilience against

1:59.9

misinformation. Welcome, John. Thanks very much. It's really great to be here.

2:04.4

And joining us from Italy, we also have Stella Levantezi, who investigates the history of climate

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