Fake News and the Presidential Elections

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Jan 26, 2024 | All Talk, Education, Local, Politics, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Talk of the Bay | 0

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Fake News and the Presidential Elections

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As the presidential primary season gets underway, how will fake news influence how people, or whether people vote? How will it impact the views people hold about the nominees? What are deep fakes and how can we deal with them? Those are a few questions tackled by Dr. Nolan Higdon, professor of media studies at UCSC and author of The Anatomy of Fake News in this timeley interview.

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.