François Picard is happy to welcome Valdemar Osted, associate and head of know-how at Danish digital consultancy Frequent Consultancy. Can the concern of disinformation change into as harmful to democracy as disinformation itself? Osted challenges broadly circulated claims that assaults on Russian knowledge centres have triggered a sudden collapse in on-line engagement amongst supporters of Donald Trump and Germany’s far-right Various for Germany (AfD). Drawing on social media monitoring and analysis into inauthentic behaviour, Osted reviews discovering no uncommon decline in Fb interactions following the assaults.
Digital mistrust and polarisation: 'We have to get again to participating with each other as a society'
