The Big Threat: The Trust Deficit

On the last leg of his international fact-finding mission, Bryce travels to London - where an academic’s calls for media literacy to be taught at school might finally be being answered. He also visits The Guardian newspaper to learn how they’re fighting fake news - and meets with a Cambridge professor who’s an expert on the psychology of misinformation and worries COVID may have changed everything.

Links:

Professor David Buckingham

Professor Jon Roozenbeek

House of Lords Report into Media Literacy

New Yorker cartoon

Guardian Foundation’s NewsWise program

Ofcom’s Media Use in Britain Report

Articles:

Zinoviev letter was dirty trick by MI6 - The Guardian

Professor Jon Roozenbeek on the Psychology of Misinformation

Professor David Buckingham on the Media Literacy Report

UK Parliament launches inquiry into media literacy

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Host: Bryce Corbett

Producer & Editor: Ryan Pemberton