Hamish Macdonald

I'm nervous about clicking on a link.

I don't know where that would take me to.

So everyone is kind of making their own judgments about what they trust and why.

I guess what I'm starting to think about and what we've been exploring in this series is like how we get our population more generally to become more invested in, more engaged in media literacy, information literacy, just understanding how polluted the whole information ecosystem is and then give us all or help us all develop our own skills to navigate that better.

Because I don't think...

No one's going to come along and just clean this all up and make it easy for us.

I think we're all going to have to arm ourselves better to confront the kind of the onslaught, the waves of information pollution that are coming our way, particularly with AI's development.

Yeah.

He'll tell me... So is that what you mean when you say you mostly get it from YouTube?

Supporting the business model, if not by reading it, but by at least paying the subscription fee.

And you said social media as well.

So where is it popping up for you?

Where are you seeing?

So can you tell me a bit more about that?

Because it's something I've heard from friends.

I wasn't aware of this, but some years ago, Instagram posted

switched their algorithm so it's no longer now just your friends and what they post right hardly yeah it's it's this kind of mix of some of the people you follow but then other random stuff that gets filtered through i mean i guess from their point of view it's like whatever it takes to keep me on the app it doesn't matter about who you follow or who your friends are yeah anymore it's

But I've been reading that the algorithm, the Instagram algorithm is pushing a lot of like far right content or extreme right content.

I think we're a bit confused.

I think we don't know what to do.