How is Russia deploying disinformation following its full scale invasion of Ukraine? What's the difference between disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda? Can memes win wars? Check out this fascinating interview with Olga Tokariuk - journalist and disinformation researcher - to find out.
Olga Tokariuk is an independent journalist, non-resident fellow at CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis) and former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, where she is currently based. Her main professional interests are international affairs and research on disinformation.
Olga has vast experience in Ukrainian and international media. Her reports and op-eds have been featured in TIME, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, NPR, BBC, Monocle, EFE (Spain), Il Foglio, ANSA (Italy). She is a former head of foreign news desk at the independent Ukrainian Hromadske TV.
Also in this episode, we read a listener mail from Dr. Sreevas Sahasranamam about how artificial intelligence may influence the future of the Hindu faith.
You can email us at DataFest@thedatalab.com or keep up to date with DataFest at https://datafest.global and on Twitter @datafest_
Your hosts are Gordon Johnstone - Head of DataFest at The Data Lab, Scotland's innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence hosted by the University of Edinburgh - and Lily Higham, Senior Automation Engineer at the BBC World Service.
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