Hamish Macdonald

Do you think you'd never be caught out by disinformation?

Well, cast your mind back.

Remember that big story about the bedbugs at the Paris Olympics?

Well, that was actually a very effective Russian disinformation campaign.

So effective that most people still believe it to this day.

G'day, it's Hamish MacDonald here.

And I've learned that disinformation can be surprisingly subtle and hard to spot.

If you want to join me interrogating the dark world of disinformation, stream The Matter of Facts now on ABC iView.

do you think you'd never be targeted with disinformation well remember hearing about those new australian road rules curfews for drivers over 60 and mandates to keep your lights on that was actually an ai disinformation campaign g'day it's hamish mcdonald here i'm a journalist and i've been learning that online tactics just like this are being used regularly to seed mistrust in government decision making

You can join me as I interrogate the world of myths and disinformation.

Stream The Matter of Facts now on ABC iView.

Do you think you'd never be caught out by disinformation?

Well, cast your mind back.

Remember that big story about the bedbugs at the Paris Olympics?

Well, that was actually a very effective Russian disinformation campaign.

So effective that most people still believe it to this day.

G'day, it's Hamish MacDonald here.

And I've learned that disinformation can be surprisingly subtle and hard to spot.

If you want to join me interrogating the dark world of disinformation, stream The Matter of Facts now on ABC iView.

There was a point in time where we imagined like a post-truth future in which none of us really knew what was real and what was fake.