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Issues That Matter: Digital Dilemmas: Navigating Truth in a Digital World

Critics say Facebook does not apply its rules against misinformation as robustly to posts in Spanish, allowing harmful claims to spread.
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Critics say Facebook does not apply its rules against misinformation as robustly to posts in Spanish, allowing harmful claims to spread.

With the rise in artificial intelligence, how can we be sure what we’re reading is true? Who’s behind online misinformation, and for what purpose?

Join us as we seek strategies to discern truth from falsehood on Issues That Matter: Digital Dilemmas: Navigating Truth in a Digital World.

Our guests are Dr. Nitin Agarwal, Director of the COSMOS Research Center and the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Chair and Donaghey Distinguished Professor of Information Science, UA Little Rock; Kristin Netterstrom Higgins, Program Associate with the Arkansas Public Policy Center, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture; and Sarah Richardson, Executive Director of the Literacy Council of the Ouachitas.

Our discussion was recorded live on Zoom on Sept. 12, 2024, and is the latest in our series of panels presented by the Central Arkansas Library System, the League of Women Voters of Pulaski County and Little Rock Public Radio.

You can listen to an edited version of the discussion above.

Daniel Breen is News Director of Little Rock Public Radio.