Overview: Unreliable and false information is spreading around the world to such an extent that some commentators have referred to the avalanche of misinformation during COVID-19 as corresponding ‘dis-infodemic’. The phenomenon is not new, but appears to have intensified with COVID-19 complicating, and at times causing active harm as it relates to, public health messaging and the delivery of key services. However, not everyone spreading untruths is doing so maliciously. This distinction underlies the difference between the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” the second of which implies intent. In this session, we will explore the complex interplay of mis and dis-information, issues of truth, who arbitrates it and the ecosystems in which these phenomena exist and spread.

Guest Faculty:
● Joan Donovan - Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
● Yochai Benkler - Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
● Kasisomayajula Viswanath - Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

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