Social Media Episodes
BBC Trending: Social Media watchdog. An interview with editor Mike Wendling
May 18, 2021
Media literacy is so important today since millions of Americans get their news from Social Media which unlike legacy press and TV is neither edited nor curated. Separating fact from fiction, conspiracy theory, falsehood and…
Alt Tech meets the Free Speech Network: Social Media turns right.
Nov. 25, 2020
Twitter, Facebook and the other big social media companies moved toward a curated speech, censorship model during the 2020 campaign. As a result an Alt Tech social media ecosystem has grown up emphasizing the importance of…
Tik Tok, a threat to US security. Really ?
July 21, 2020
Tik Tok the popular lip syncing video app has exploded in popularity globally during the Covid 19 lockdowns. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has threatened to ban it in the US. India and Australia have already done so. Is…
Facebook: a free speech forum or an advertising surveillance app ?
July 12, 2020
The Social Media giant is weathering a month long boycott by some of its advertisers, a critical civil rights audit and controversy about political speech. Yet Mark Zuckerberg’s founding principles for Facebook remain: voice…
Disinformation and Fake News: How to spot it and How to avoid it.
July 9, 2020
With the 2020 Presidential election less than 4 months away, Social Media and with it Fake News stories will loom large no doubt, much as they did in 2016. The BBC has a dedicated weekly program called BBC Trending which fo…
Remoteotopia: A New World Order post Covid 19.
May 28, 2020
Does the Covid 19 pandemic represent an epochal inflection point in American history ? Will we look back on this time as one of those watershed moments of how things used to be so much better or worse ? Or will the confine…
Podcast 101: the What, Why, Who of podcasting.
May 22, 2020
Podcasting has become an important information medium in the last 15 years with Apple, Spotify, Google, Anchor, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio and iHeart Radio investing heavily in distribution. While barriers to entry are low, surv…