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Welcome to the DisinfoHacks Podcast, a captivating series that delves deep into one of the most pressing challenges of our digital age – disinformation. Join us on this thought-provoking journey as we dissect the intricate web of falsehoods, misinformation, and manipulation that shapes our information landscape. In each episode, we explore different facets of disinformation, from its origins and impact on society to the innovative strategies and ecosystems designed to combat it. Our hosts provide valuable insights, expert analysis, and actionable solutions for concerned citizens, digital communication professionals, and academics seeking to stay informed. DisinfoHacks is your go-to source for understanding, combating, and ultimately hacking disinformation. Join us as we unravel the complexities of disinformation in this engaging and informative series. DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

Episodes

  1. 01/19/2024

    Unmasking Disinfo Hacks project, the journey concludes

    Welcome to the final episode of our podcast series, “DisinfoHacks Podcast”. In this episode, we are wrapping up the exciting journey through the world of disinformation, reflecting upon our incredible ride and discussing the lasting impact of our event “DisinfoHacks Hackathon” one year ago in Thessaloniki. In this concluding episode, we take a moment to look back at the highlights and insights gained throughout our podcast series and our fruitful discussions. We dive into the heart of “Disinformation Hackathon”, a groundbreaking project, where people from different fields worked tirelessly to develop innovative solutions to combat the spread of disinformation and misinformation. We most importantly look upon the power of bringing people together; experts, innovators, students and ethical hackers to tackle this growing challenge. A project organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  2. 01/17/2024

    Disinfo Hacks and Security,Navigating the shifting Landscape

    Participants: Christos Smilianis, Public Affairs Officer and training manager in the Greek army. Katerina Beli, Political Communication Strategist Moderator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: Christos : “Communication and journalism are two very important aspects on how to safeguard our societies and communities against state actors and non-state actors who want to harm them.”  “Disinformation is not something new. What changed is the scale of it because of the rise of the digital media of actors that want to take advantage of vulnerable points of our society.” “Not all of our people are equally prepared to face disinformation. Education is very important. Rather than trying to heal the damage of misinformation, we must try to prevent it. And one of the most powerful tools is education.” “Speed is important. Responding fast and informing people of the dangerous situations they might be facing, in order to safeguard people from disinformation.” “People feel excluded and this is the trojan horse that gives roots to disinformation to grow in society.” “Deep fakes are not taking over the agenda right now. This type of misinformation is not as common as we were expecting.” “Nowadays we know in fact that people lack the time and motivation to fact-check the information that they get. In the future, we will have more tools like Chat-GTP and more AI platforms that will help people fact-check the information that they are receiving. Although the rise of misinformation campaigns will keep rising.” Katerina: “You create something when you need it. When there was a valid need to create answers against disinformation around covid, we create solutions in a crisis mode, a lot faster and more efficiently.”   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  3. 01/15/2024

    Disinformation and religion: exploring the two sides of their complex relationship

    Participants: Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global Moderator:Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: Nikos: “In the present, [disinformation] has been used as a way to promote hate speech, hate crimes and to mobilize people against other people based on their religious beliefs.” “People can become really fanatic on this issue, as they feel that a part of their identity has been insulted. So, any attack against my religious beliefs is considered an attack against my own identity.” “Fake news is being formed by exploiting stereotypes that we have about others. We may have a certain biased perception, then fake news comes and perpetrates that. I think it is easier to do that with religious issues, because there are alright some stereotypes circulating against religious communities and it is easier, in a way, to exploit these religion-related beliefs that we have seen taken form through stereotypes.” “We live in a polarized world and religion has been used to bring one community against the other. In this effort, fake news plays a very specific role, to distort the perception I have of others because they belong to a different religious group.” Aurra: “In Africa, religion has been used since pre-colonial days. Religion has been what united African communities and tribes across the continent and as we know, unfortunately, religion was used as a huge tool when it came to colonization, to separate and to justify lots of injustices that took place. It has been the underlying tone across the continent, where religion plays a really, really important role in politics and politicians lean very heavily on churches and religious groups and sects, in order to sway public opinion, especially in election time.”   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  4. 12/14/2023

    Empowering the next generation, media literacy and children in the digital age

    Participants: Sherri Hope Culver: Founder/Director Center for Media & Information Literacy. Professor. Creator/Host Kids Talk Media podcast. Consultant media & children, media literacy. Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global Diana Filimon, Journalist & Member of DCN Global Moderator:Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: Sherri: “I think the children are very concerned about their surroundings and the world and the best way to approach them is to find ways to create age appropriate conversation and age appropriate media that they kids can enjoy, but also learn from and then build steps, so that they can step by step so that they grow smoothly into adults.” “Treat children as civic minded children if you want them to become civic minded adults.” “For us to build a positive feeling in youth about news means paying attention to how youth process information and what it means to be an eight-year-old,  a 10-year-old or a 15-year-old and be mindful of that and use that information on how we craft news for them.” “Making age appropriate content, we can be serious in an age appropriate way and sometimes be lighter, so that they can understand that news is not just heavy and serious, but they can be about understanding sunscreen or about the animals; it's all a source of information.” Nikos:  “Younger generations are characterized by two main things; one is news avoidance and secondly they lack media literacy skills while they are very deep into that.” “A huge challenge is: How to make journalism attractive to younger generations.” “You can also learn from your children; they might know a feature on Tik Tok that you don’t know about. So, to make them feel that they teach you something can help them feel like they are  building a stronger relationship with the media and with you.”   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  5. 12/11/2023

    Building Trust in Journalism, a fruitful conversation with Aphrodite Salas

    Participants: Aphrodite Salas, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism at Concordia University Moderator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: Aphrodite: “I think it’s more in the way that we do our jobs and that that’s kind of where my area of focus is. It’s in the execution of the journalism, the methodology, how you’re going about doing the interviews, sharing the stories, framing the stories and always in consultation with the community.” “Stories fall to the cracks because we receive a huge amount of them and we don’t want stories to fall in the cracks. So, maybe AI could help with that.”  “You know it’s really important to consider relationships in journalism. If you think about and you just put yourself in a position of someone suffering some sort of trauma or someone you know sharing the story with you, how would it feel to have a total stranger come up to you and ask how you’re feeling on what might be the worst day of your life?” “Care and intent is very important in the process of journalism.” Aurra: “More so than before, so much of the information we consume about what’s happening in the world and what is not is coming from informal structures. It’s not coming from traditional journalists or traditional media. We live in an age where we will listen to what appears more than what’s on the news. In the southern part of Africa we call it ubuntu,  the ability to put yourself basically in somebody else’s shoes and understand that we all are a community, so whatever action I take has a direct impact on those around me and a long lasting impact.”   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  6. 12/06/2023

    Disinfo and cybersecurity,navigating the Nexus of disinformation and cybersecurity

    Participants: Alicia Fawcett, Visiting Professor, NYU Cyber Fellow, Cybersecurity & International Affairs,McKinsey & Co Affairs Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Katerina Beli, Political Communication Strategist Jelina Makrantonaki, Journalist Moderator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes   Alicia: “Disinformation and cybersecurity are one and the same cyber security threats create disinformation and disinformation also creates cybersecurity threats they are very linked with each other.”   “ A lot of disinformation comes from cybersecurity experts, understanding how to create  malicious material by using social media as a vehicle to disseminate fake information or  interfere with a country's domestic affairs. You need to be someone to tech savvy  to create fake accounts, to know how to outsource certain elements of the disinformation process. It’s really important that the public becomes educated in cyber security, in order to even analyze and understand what is being disseminated into cyberspace.”   “The newest and hottest topic right now is AI and AI cybersecurity threats and how AI is also influencing disinformation and it’s something that we should definitely been paying attention to, because AI does not have an understanding of what is right and wrong and so, AI is also a creator of disinformation so if you don’t use this correctly and understand and create norms around AI Ethics. Also, when we are developing these AI tools we should be looking at implementing data privacy and other ethical controls. We need to realize AI can be creating misinformation and also come up with solutions to fight this misinformation.”     “When we realize we have common threats in our cybersecurity space and understand it is a technical problem and not a cultural or political problem. If we share information about the cybersecurity threats, we can make better solutions to these challenges. So, being more collaborative and sharing more information is really the key.”   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  7. 11/27/2023

    Understanding the gender-climate nexus: how does disinformation affect other topics

    Participants: Dr. Aubrey Paris, Gender, Climate and Innovation Policy Advisor, Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI), U.S. Department of State Moderators: Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Vasilis Tsoulis, Co-founder and CEO of YET NGO   Outstanding quotes: “In our office, we think about how the climate crisis disproportionately impacts women and girls around the world in various ways, but we also think of how important it is to empower women and girls as leaders and innovators in our fight to combat the climate crisis. We can’t assume that they will have the resources and the tools, the mentorship, the education that they'll need to become those leaders, if we don't provide these tools for them with equity and equality.” – Aubrey Paris “It's critically important that we empower women and girls to develop solutions to problems that affect their whole communities. It is not only the right thing to do, it is the strategic thing to do! What happens if a woman or a girl develops a solution to water scarcity or to flooding? She is not only developing this solution for women and girls. It's benefiting her entire community. And I think it’s important to remember that.” – Aubrey Paris

  8. 11/26/2023

    ‘The room where it happens’: Hacking disinfo through encrypted messaging apps

    How easier is it to trust something that you show in a group chats that includes family, friends, or neighbours? As this week’s guest, Professor Mausumi Bhattacharyya, can attest, misinformation and disinformation circulate in unprecedent speed in private groups via messaging platforms, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber etc. In this episode, we listen to her explaining the problem and even suggesting the steps we should follow to spot misinformation: Don’t rush! Check the context! Go to factchecking websites! Always be vigilant!

  9. 11/25/2023

    Factchecking 101: Searching trust and truth using tech tools

    Participants: Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global Aaron Sharockman, Executive Director at PolitiFact Moderator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: “Here's the problem as I see it today. Today, we now know that we cannot trust everything we read on the internet. But we haven’t done a good job as a society teaching people how to figure what’s right and wrong for themselves.” - Aaron Sharockman “How can we combine human thinking and intelligence along with technology? I think these are two spheres that should be interconnected. How can we use the technology of deep fakes, our love for stimulation, our love of fiction to hack the hackers? How can we hack this process in a reverse engineering and find completely novel paths to address disinformation? Because now we try to address it using just logic. Sometimes if you wanna hack the system, you have to play with the rules of the hacker” - Betty Tsakarestou “I think what Facebook is building with the Metaverse is a really intriguing area, where we have to be thoughtful about how misinformation and disinformation spread. I think we can agree that social media companies got this completely wrong at the beginning, because they weren’t designing things with trust and truth in mind. They are now designing this new way of communicating and getting together and I hope that the companies have placed trust and truth in the mind. In a few years, there will be a radical disruption in what we consider traditional social media, which will have huge effects on the spread of information and that of misinformation and disinformation.” - Aaron Sharockman   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  10. 11/24/2023

    ‘Adding more cheese to the broccoli’: Youth taking-over tackling disinformation!

    Participants: Katerina Beli, Political communication strategist Marianna Tanagia, Communications Director at DCN Global Jelina Makrantonaki, Journalist Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global Moderator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: “It could be effective if we add media literacy and media education curricula into primary schools. The sooner the better!” – Marianna Tanagia “We need to take into account that children today are digital natives. We don't need to help them on how to use social media or the internet, but to teach them how to filter what they are learning through these channels and how to use social media in an efficient and impactful way.” – Katerina Beli “Young people tend to love content that is user generated, a more authentic content. So, micro-influencers and peer to peer interactions can be more effective in promoting a culture of understanding how misinformation and disinformation works.” – Katerina Beli “We need to be creative and make the fact checking experience something cool if we want the young communicators to take part on this journey. We need to add more cheese (fun stuff like pop culture, memes, social media) to the broccoli that is stuff that appear too stiff or boring. Maybe we need a re-branding of the word misinformation!” – Marianna Tanagia “We need to give back the credibility that the institutions have in order to validate the information. They are supposed to do the cross-checking examination and, most importantly, we need to teach people to be more patient, teach them to slow down and think twice before sharing and reposting information on their profiles.” - Jelina Makrantonaki   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  11. 11/23/2023

    The impact of disinformation about the Ukrainian war in Romania and Moldova

    Participants: Diana Filimon, Journalist & Member of DCN Global Betty Tsakarestou, Associate Professor and Head of ADandPRLAB at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece Nikos Panagiotou, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece & President of DCN Global Jelina Makrantonaki, Journalist Moderator: Aurra Kawanzaruwa, Manager of DCN AFRICA   Outstanding quotes: “In both countries, there is a very strong migration from old media to new media and social media, which makes it very hard to control the phenomenon, because disinformation actors are born there. So, they know those spaces better than we do, because we always have to shift, to adapt and to move and to learn new ways to counter this.” - Diana Filimon “Young people are using their own common sense in detecting exaggerated emotions and are very well placing them as being wrong. Most of them are not intentionally well-informed, not even intentionally informed, but they stumble across information. They have this radar though, feeling when they are manipulated emotionally, but it a matter of chance.” - Diana Filimon   DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

  12. 11/22/2023

    Introducing DisinfoHacks: Creating an ecosystem that hacks disinformation

    How can you hack disinformation? By creating an ecosystem of like-minded actors of course! Professors Betty Tsakarestou and Nikos Panagiotou introduce DisinfoHacks, a project that aiming on creating this ecosystem, a continuous learning process on hacking disinformation. Taking inspiration from their day jobs as university professor, in this first episode of the “Have we got news for you!” podcast, they offer us an introductory course into the world of disinformation, how it should be examined, its role as a trend and its relationship to institutions, authorities, media and the societal fabric in general.

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Welcome to the DisinfoHacks Podcast, a captivating series that delves deep into one of the most pressing challenges of our digital age – disinformation. Join us on this thought-provoking journey as we dissect the intricate web of falsehoods, misinformation, and manipulation that shapes our information landscape. In each episode, we explore different facets of disinformation, from its origins and impact on society to the innovative strategies and ecosystems designed to combat it. Our hosts provide valuable insights, expert analysis, and actionable solutions for concerned citizens, digital communication professionals, and academics seeking to stay informed. DisinfoHacks is your go-to source for understanding, combating, and ultimately hacking disinformation. Join us as we unravel the complexities of disinformation in this engaging and informative series. DisinfoHacks Project is an innovative training program that brings together partners expertise, engaging an ecosystem of communication and media stakeholders, startup innovators and influencers in identifying, assessing, and combating disinformation." Organized by DCN Global, #ADandPRLAB, YET, funded by U.S. Department of State and U.S. Mission in Greece, supported by Found.ation and SocialInnov.

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  • Creator
    DisinfoHacks Team
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Clean
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    DisinfoHacks