How can you hack disinformation? By creating an ecosystem of like-minded actors of course! Professors Betty Tsakarestou and Nikos Panagiotou introduce DisinfoHacks, a project that aiming on creating this ecosystem, a continuous learning process on hacking disinformation. Taking inspiration from their day jobs as university professor, in this first episode of the “Have we got news for you!” podcast, they offer us an introductory course into the world of disinformation, how it should be examined, its role as a trend and its relationship to institutions, authorities, media and the societal fabric in general.
“The project of DisinfoHacks aims to break away from traditional approaches and find innovative ways and solutions. We aim to hack the existent approaches and create some innovative ones. We have to follow a multilevel approach, corresponding to different needs in various levels: in media, in politics, in the business community, in education, in digital technologies.”
– Nikos Panagiotou
“In DisinfoHacks we have an ecosystem approach. The ecosystem approach means that we create a situation where people, citizens, including ourselves, can connect the different dots of the journey of misinformation. We try to unpack, to hack the whole journey of how misinformation happens together, rather than one by one.”
– Betty Tsakarestou