Ben collins and brandy zebrosny, who will talk about how and where disinformation forms and spreads. The main problem is that creating and spreading disinformation has never been easier. Because its born on and grows on the internet, we can trace the path of the anatomy of disinformation, taking the oonge c ongoing Conspiracy Theory that people are traveling by plane to instigate mayhem and destruction around the country. This post, by a real important, says, quote, boise and surrounding areas, be ready for attacks downtown and residential areas. At least a dozen males got off the plane in boise from seattle, dressed head to toe in black, backpacks only. One had a tattoo that said Antifa America on his arm. There are people watching. You see this post from may 31. It has no basis in reality whatsoever. It is a figure of the posters imagination. Because this is the internet, his madeup post caught on. This post spread widely. A group called the real three percent ers idaho called the po
For many decades. Weve all known you in the Public Health field, and its a real privilege for me to be here with you to talk about your brilliant new book. I want to just start simply, you know, explain the title silent invasion and the reasons you wrote the book, what you talk about all of it at the beginning of the book. Guest great, professor. And im going to call you larry, so thank you. Its really an opportunity to be with you again. We have had a a long career together battling pandemics around the globe and making sure the most vulnerable are served, and hope we take that message here in this country. But i called it silent invasion to really raise the alerts that despite the capacity we hadnt in diagnosing truly diagnosing respiratory diseases ever in this country. I was confronted that in africa in 1998 where fever was treated first as malaria and then a Something Else and then a Something Else, and maybe it was tuberculosis and maybe it was hiv, and it was all presumptive and