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AI-FLUENT PodcastBrazil's Aos Fatos' Director of Innovation on Creating Bots that Tackle Misinformation and More Imaginative Ways of Using AI in JournalismIn a new episode of AI-FLUENT, I am talking to Bruno Fávero, a journalist who became Director of Innovation at one of Brazil's leading fact-checking websites Aos Fatos.
They developed their own bots that tackle misinformation and tools that not only document digital lies and hate but also how the "distorted algorithms" of apps and platforms contributed to their spread.
So, what can we all learn from Aos Fatos' business model with its focus on tech and fact-checking?
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How to become a Director of Innovation without a t...2025-03-1048 minAI-FLUENT PodcastIndia’s Tattle Co-Founder Tarunima Prabhakar on Future of AI in Addressing Harmful Online Content and Fighting Misogyny with Equitable AITattle, one of India's pioneering civic tech organisations using AI to combat online gender-based violence.
In this new episode of AI-FLUENT, Tattle's co-founder Tarunima Prabhakar shares insights into Tattle's innovative projects, including Uli, which helps women navigate harmful online content, and their Deepfake Analysis Unit deployed during India's recent elections.
We explore the complex challenges of making technology accessible to less tech-savvy women while balancing relationships with Big Tech platforms and governments.
Main Topics We Discussed in This Episode:
What is the role of civic tech organisations in India?
One of Tattle's fir...2025-03-0147 minAI-FLUENT PodcastRana Arafat on AI Manipulation, Disinformation and Algorithmic Bias during India’s 2024 Elections and the Israel-Gaza WarWe usually talk about biased data and inaccurate interpretations regarding technology that comes from the East, China for example. Yet we rarely discuss the lack of transparency and biased data produced by Western tech companies.
So it was refreshing to have this conversation with Rana Arafat, Assistant Professor in Digital Journalism at City, University of London.
How are Arab newsrooms, especially in Egypt, Lebanon and the UAE, adapting to generative AI technologies? How do the governments of these countries regulate and control AI technology, and how do Big Tech companies operate in authoritarian countries in...2025-02-2340 minAI-FLUENT PodcastMarius Dragomir on How Big Tech Turned from Solution to Problem, and the Future of Public Service Media in a Hyper-personalised Storytelling WorldMarius Dragomir, the Founding Director of the Media and Journalism Research Centre, shares with me the most surprising findings from his recent research on propaganda narratives, as well as the revealing discoveries about ownership and financial aspects of the 100 AI tools most used by journalists.
Remember that 67 % of these 100 tools lack critical data on ownership and finances. Check the tools you are using.
How can the media industry become less dependent on Big Tech? One of the possible solutions lies with audiences and the private sector. We are discussing the case of the Czech Republic – wh...2025-02-1559 minAI-FLUENT PodcastIndia's Factly Founder Rakesh Dubbudu on Misinformation Trends, DeepSeek's Signal to the Media Industry, and Tech Giants' Political AllegiancesDo you believe you care about facts more than people in India? For a split second, did you notice any bias in your quick mental response?
Whom do you trust more when it comes to news: a well-established media brand or your closest friend who runs a popular current affairs YouTube channel? Who do you think is more likely to spread misinformation?
As Meta and other tech giants show their allegiance to Trump's administration and become increasingly partisan, will financial connections with these platforms become a reputational liability for the media industry?
We...2025-02-0758 minAI-FLUENT PodcastMariano Blejman, CEO of SmartStory.ai and Founder of Media Party, on Neuroscience and How It Helps to Understand Audience Behaviour and News ConsumptionWhy do we choose to read or watch something - are we manipulated by algorithms? Do we have any cognitive independence? How and where will we receive news in the near future? In a world where the majority of content will be created by AI, how will we know whom to trust?
And what does neuroscience tell us about all of that? In a nutshell, these are the questions we tried to answer in this episode with Mariano Blejman, an Argentinian media entrepreneur and the founder of the Media Party festival in Buenos Aires.
Main...2025-02-0137 minAI-FLUENT PodcastMadhav Chinnappa on How to Get from an Electric Bike to a Jet Plane Phase of Using Generative AI in Journalism and BeyondTechnology has a value but doesn't have values, reminds us Madhav Chinnappa. It's up to us humans who have values to define how the technology will be used and whether it will bring more good than evil.
The majority of us are now in a so-called efficiency phase of using AI tools, thinking mainly about how to optimise things. However, those who will jump to a creativity phase more quickly will have an advantage. Ask yourself which phase you are in now. And if you are still only in the first one, you really should be thinking...2025-01-2348 minAI-FLUENT PodcastRappler's Gemma Mendoza on Innovation, the Role of Gen Z in the Newsroom, the Proliferation of Deepfakes and Journalism's EvolutionAs a media organisation, they stand on three pillars: journalism, technology and the wisdom of crowds. From the very beginning, they have worked at the intersection of journalism, technology and community engagement.
It was co-founded by a woman who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for safeguarding freedom of expression and for her efforts to address corruption in her country.
They were the first media organisation in their country to publish guidelines on AI use in 2023.
They were among ten digital media organisations selected by OpenAI to participate in "innovative experiments around deliberative...2025-01-1750 minAI-FLUENT PodcastLSE's JournalismAI Tshepo Tshabalala on The Power of Collaboration and Using AI CreativelyAre you a small newsroom or a one-person content creator, and are you, like this episode's guest, happy to fail fast and fail often? You might not have a designated tech team, yet you want to use AI-powered tools to speed up your work and solve certain problems.
Are you tempted to use AI to produce even more content? Pause here and reconsider: might there be better ways to use generative AI to advance your work and develop a deeper understanding of those whom you serve?
We are discussing all of this and more with...2025-01-0932 minAI-FLUENT PodcastAlan Soon, Co-founder of Singapore-based Splice Media: What Do We Get Out of Good Journalism and Why Should We Pay for It?If journalism is valuable, as many of us think, why don't people pay for it? That's the question Alan returned to several times during our conversation. And he actually gave the answer, an existential answer to this question.
What's the purpose of your newsroom? Why do you exist as a media organisation? What audience needs do you serve? If you are able to answer these questions honestly without any corporate fluff, you come closer to answering the money question: why should people pay for your content?
'We have gone past peak content', Alan says. Nobody...2024-12-2043 minAI-FLUENT PodcastClaudia Báez from Colombia’s Cuestión Pública on how to stay ahead of the game in investigative journalismYou can investigate serious corruption cases, but it doesn't mean that the way you talk about it to your audience should be super serious and boring. What if you come up with an AI-powered avatar that uses facts checked by human journalists, yet speaks to the audience in a sarcastic voice as an assistant rather than a know-it-all expert?
Claudia Báez, a digital innovator and co-founder of the Colombian investigative website Cuestión Pública, thinks that investigative journalism should by no means be delivered in a way that is appealing only to men in suits ove...2024-12-1233 minAI-FLUENT PodcastCode for Africa’s Chris Roper and Amanda Strydom on AI, disinformation and the future of journalismIn this episode, I am talking to Chris Roper, Deputy CEO of Code for Africa and Amanda Strydom, Senior Programme Manager for CivicSignal, a programme within Code for Africa, which maps and offers insights into media ecosystems in Africa using research and machine learning tools.
We talked about how the newsrooms they work with apply AI in their professional life. What are the AI-related issues that African newsrooms are truggling with and what kind of solutions are they coming up with?
Code for Africa is also well-known for their work in tackling mis- and disinformation. Chr...2024-12-0547 minAI-FLUENT PodcastAI-FLUENT WITH ILONA VINOGRADOVA TRAILERAI-Fluent is my new podcast where I talk with storytellers from around the world about journalism and storytelling in all its shapes and forms, its marriage with AI and other technology, and innovative thinking.
Most of my guests are from the Global South, so it's a rare opportunity to listen to people with different perspectives, different challenges, and solutions they have to offer. New episode every Friday
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