Has disagreement become disinformation?

Over the last decade, elites, expert institutions and populist or independent voices have increasingly clashed over who defines reality. As fact checkers, disinformation watchdogs, platform policies and human-coded algorithms shape what people see, hear and believe, a deeper power struggle comes into focus.

This episode asks whether the battle against disinformation is a fight for truth or a way to control the narrative. Do we need gatekeepers for online information, or does that approach reflect a growing mistrust of the public’s ability to think for itself? Can societies reduce disinformation without crushing the open contest of ideas?

Expert guests Glenn Greenwald, Renée DiResta and Siva Vaidhyanathan join moderator Mohamed Hassan to explore how this paradigm shift has played out through the last decade’s major political and social shocks, debating how the truth is defined and what ethical boundaries should exist for those who define it.