RLUK19 | Charles Kriel - How social networks manipulate news, radicalise opinion & destroy democracy
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 02/04/2019

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Collusion – how social networks manipulate news, radicalise opinion and destroy democracy

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are breaking democracy. Despite claims to have set up fake news war rooms, and invested in thousands of moderators, the social networks’ daily practices – indeed their fundamental design – radicalise users. The results? Genocide. Assassination. And a new velocity in the rise of Putin’s influence over ever-more-fragile democracies. Charles Kriel brings back notes from the front lines of the data wars.

Dr Charles Kriel is the Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Commons Select Committee on Disinformation, currently creating global headlines on the Cambridge Analytica / Facebook scandal.

He is the Founder of Kriel.Agency, a StratComs agency, and with a broad portfolio including Iraq, Ukraine, Kosovo, Turkey, the Caucasus, Tajikistan, Mongolia, Trinidad and Tobago, and others.

A leading expert on data & ethics, and media & design for behaviour change, Charles is the author of several books, both novels and non-fiction.

A lifelong broadcaster and writer, Charles works in conflict zones and fragile states promoting free press and countering violent extremism. He’s an Emmy-nominated game designer, ex-BBC Radio 1 Resident Artist, novelist, and is currently directing a documentary on disinformation and data in collaboration with Bifröst Media.

Charles is an Associate Fellow at King’s College Strategic Communication centre.