Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication and information at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He’s the founder of Digital Public Infrastructure, a research group that is studying and building alternatives to the existing commercial internet, and the author of Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them. Ethan spoke with Ryan Merkley, Aspen’s Commission on Information Disorder project director, on how a decline in trust can affect our information ecosystem.
This session is part of a series of expert briefings on mis and disinformation hosted by the Aspen Institute in tandem with our Commission on Information Disorder to help make sense of the various facets of the information crisis. They are designed as a resource for the commissioners and the broader public.
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