45 min

1 - Trolls, trolls, trolls‪!‬ Catch Me If You Can

    • Technology

Danny didn't know exactly what he signed up for when he took the job as a PR associate in an advertising firm months before the elections. What he thought would be copywriting work turned out to be a disinformation campaign against the opponent of a local politician running for office. Harvard and UMass researcher Jonathan Ong and journalist Kat Ventura look into the psyche of "trolls" as they explore the first tier of the network disinformation in the Philippines.
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Danny didn't know exactly what he signed up for when he took the job as a PR associate in an advertising firm months before the elections. What he thought would be copywriting work turned out to be a disinformation campaign against the opponent of a local politician running for office. Harvard and UMass researcher Jonathan Ong and journalist Kat Ventura look into the psyche of "trolls" as they explore the first tier of the network disinformation in the Philippines.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

45 min

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