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Keeping It Real News with Baratunde Thurston | Mozilla

Posted on Oct 3, 2018

This animated video uses vivid colors and surreal imagery to illustrate how social media platforms can blur the lines between credible and unreliable information. It critiques the "share model" that treats all content equally, leading to a flattening of quality and accountability.

How do you tell fact from fiction when the information you see online all look alike? In the season 3 finale of IRL, New York Times bestselling author Baratunde Thurston ("How To Be Black") breaks down just how social media platforms enable the viral spread of misinformation and fake news. Listen to the episode "What To Expect When You're Electing" https://irlpodcast.org/season3/episode7/ Subscribe to IRL: Online Life is Real Life https://mzl.la/IRL

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