Our information age, misinformation topic of Pew Charitable Trusts’ podcast

Published on June 15, 2020 NLP in the News

NLP founder and CEO Alan C. Miller discusses our confusing digital information age on The Pew Charitable Trusts’ podcast After the Fact. During the June 12 segment, The Infodemic, Miller tells listeners: “We’re living in the most complex information landscape in human history.” He then shares ideas on how we can navigate an overwhelming stream of information, most of it false or misleading, and become fact-checkers ourselves.

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