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Lisa Kaplan and Sophie Lawton on Clickbait Craft Videos and Influence Campaigns
Lisa Kaplan and Sophie Lawton on Clickbait Craft Videos and Influence Campaigns
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41 minutes
Released:
Mar 5, 2020
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This week on Lawfare’s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Lisa Kaplan and Sophie Lawton of Alethea Group, an organization that works to detect and mitigate disinformation on social media. Lisa recently published a piece on Lawfare about a massive network of companies run by TheSoul Publishing—founded in Russia by a company called AdMe. The companies publish bizarre craft videos on Youtube and Facebook, along with a handful of videos about history and politics with an overtly pro-Russian slant. So what is actually going on here? They talked about what red flags Lisa and Sophie look for in hunting down disinformation, their experiences tackling disinformation while working for Senator Angus King’s reelection campaign in 2018, and how political campaigns need to tackle online influence efforts in 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Mar 5, 2020
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Podcast episode
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