[Podcast] Fresh Air with Terry Gross via 91.7 FM San Francisco KALW; Inside The Russian Disinformation Playbook: Exploit Tension, Sow Chaos
"This is FRESH AIR I'm Terry Gross. The Russian playbook for spreading
fake news and conspiracy theories is the subject of a new three-part
video series on The New York Times website titled "Operation Infektion:
Russian Disinformation: From The Cold War To Kanye." One episode goes
back to the 1980s, when the Russians created and spread the conspiracy
theory that the AIDS virus was created by the U.S. military for use as a
biological weapon. The other episodes are "The Seven Commandments Of
Fake News" and "The Worldwide War On Truth." My guest, Adam Ellick,
produced and co-directed the series. He's the executive producer of
opinion video at The New York Times, which is a new feature on their
website.
Previously, he was senior international video
correspondent and a reporter at the Times who focused on human rights.
When he was reporting from Pakistan in 2009, he was the first journalist
to tell the story of Malala and how, with her father, she fought for
girls to have the right to attend school. That was three years before
she was shot. In 2015, Ellick co-produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning video
about an Afghan woman who was burned to death by a mob. Ellick won
three Overseas Press Club awards for his coverage of Pakistan and the
Arab Spring. He produced videos from North Korea one year ago.
Adam
Ellick, welcome to FRESH AIR. So I want to start with the conspiracy
theory about the AIDS virus. And you track how this originates with
Russian fake news, with Russian disinformation. So just describe the
conspiracy theory for those people who don't remember it."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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