Date and Time:
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, 5 - 6 p.m.Location:
Morgan Murphy Media / Elizabeth Murphy Burns and Richard Burns Theater, room 202
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Join us as Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, researchers and co-authors of “The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread,” discuss potential remedies for addressing misinformation, of which they have suggested there may not be a single “silver bullet.” They’ll also talk about how interventions most likely to succeed will involve “radical and unlikely” change, which may include regulatory frameworks to penalize intentional bad actors and distributors of fake news. Basic democratic institutions may need “reengineering.”
O’Connor is a professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, and a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California Irvine.
Weatherall is professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California Irvine, where he also is a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science, the Center for Cosmology, and the Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy.