Endless conspiracy theories flood our phones in conversation with Saoirse McHugh every day, straining credulity, but with an increasing number of enthusiastic followers.
In the absence of any serious controls by the obscenely rich tech companies who allow this dangerous misinformation to be disseminated, we must equip ourselves with defences against it. Ciaran O’Connor has written a number of reports for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue on Irish right-wing conspiracies and misinformation. Cian O’Mahony is studying new approaches to critical thinking to enable people to distinguish between baseless non-evidential stuff and something approximating the truth.
Elaine Burke, of For Tech’s Sake, will moderate the discussion.
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