Fighting the Covid infodemic
Global perspectives on fake news and misinformation from BBC World Service listeners.
The Media Show · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
As the UK marks one year since the start of the first lockdown, Amol joins the BBC World Service programme World Questions to take questions from listeners around the globe. His expert panel assesses how well the media has covered the pandemic and whether fake news and misinformation has influenced public behaviour.
Guests: Nick Pickles, Senior Director of Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter, Zeynep Tufekci, sociologist and writer, Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, and Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organisation
Producers: Helen Towner and Charlie Taylor
Studio Engineers: Ronan Loftus and Duncan Hannant
This edition of The Media Show is an edited version of the BBC World Service programme, World Questions, first broadcast on 24 March 2021.