‘Last Exit To Reality’, with Sam Woolley

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This episode features returning guest Sam Woolley, whose new book 'The Reality Game,' examines the new frontiers of 'fake news' and the idea that the next wave of technology will 'break the truth'. We discuss the state of the art in propaganda bots, delve further into the Russian strategy of producing 'controlled instability' through ongoing, widespread informational attacks such as political bots, and talk about the rise of institutional distrust, which may well prove disastrous in the context of the current pandemic.

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‘The Battle Of The Bots’, with Ben Nimmo of Digital Forensic Research Lab

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It seems everyone's getting in on the "fake news" game today, from far-right parties in Germany to critics of Catalan separatism -- but none more concertedly than the Russian state itself. In this episode we meet Ben Nimmo, Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, to talk us through the latest patterns and trends in online disinformation and hybrid warfare. 'People who really want to cause trouble can make up just about anything,' explains Ben, 'and the fakes are getting more and more complex. It's really quite alarming.' After cluing us in on the state of information warfare today, we discuss evidence that the Russians are deploying a fully-funded 'Troll Factory' across dominant social networks whose intent is to distort reality and sway the political conversation in favour of its masters. We dig deep into the present history of the 'Battle Of The Bots', looking specifically at the activities of the fake Twitter account @TEN_GOP, whose misinformation has reached all the way to the highest tier of American government. Can we control or counter these rogue informational entities? What's the best way to do so? Do we need 'Asimov Laws' for a new generation of purely online, but completely real, information entities?

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