DEVNEWS: Battling Russian Disinformation
UC social media expert Jeffery Blevins guest host on podcast regarding world affairs
Professor Jeffery Blevins, head of the UC Department of Journalism, is among the nations leading experts in disinformation and misinformation.
“Disinformation tends to imply an unintentionality and the production of false information that I’m intending to deceive you. And so really this might also be more akin to propaganda, but it’s still not quite the same thing. Propaganda is meant to persuade you and it may have some half-truths, that kind of thing. But disinformation is an intentional production of false information. Misinformation, on the other hand, connotes really kind of the unwitting spread of false information,” Blevins explain in a podcast with DevNews.
Blevins is the co-author of the book, “Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks” and recently published a UC study on the spread of medical misinformation during the earlier stages of the pandemic.
Blevins has also been cited on this topic in several high profile publications.
Healthline: The big business of medical misinformation
Medical News Today: COVID-19 misinformation was 'entirely predictable,’ experts say
Featured image at top of Jeffery Blevins. Photo/UC Creative + Brand
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