Secular Agenda

RSA Webinar Highlights: Truth in political advertising / Misinformation and new extremes

Episode Summary

Each month, the Rationalist Society of Australia hosts a webinar, with a guest speaker, or speakers, presenting on a topic of interest – and beyond just matters of secularism. Over coming weeks, on this podcast we’ll be sharing the highlights of our webinars from the past year or so. In this episode, we hear from: Bill Browne (1:50), Senior Researcher in the Democracy and Accountability Program at The Australia Institute; and Dr Vivian Gerrand (30:00), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. As guest speaker at our May 2022 webinar, Mr Browne presented on the topic, ‘The momentum for truth in political advertising laws’. In March 2022, Dr Gerrand spoke on the topic, ‘Misinformation and the rise of new extremes in Australia’.

Episode Notes

Each month, the Rationalist Society of Australia hosts a webinar, with a guest speaker, or speakers, presenting on a topic of interest – and beyond just matters of secularism.

Over coming weeks, on this podcast we’ll be sharing the highlights of our webinars from the past year or so.

In this episode, we hear from: Bill Browne (1:50), Senior Researcher in the Democracy and Accountability Program at The Australia Institute; and Dr Vivian Gerrand (30:00), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University.

As guest speaker at our May 2022 webinar, Mr Browne presented on the topic, ‘The momentum for truth in political advertising laws’. You can watch the full episode here on our YouTube channel.

In March 2022, Dr Gerrand spoke on the topic, ‘Misinformation and the rise of new extremes in Australia’. You can watch the full episode here on our YouTube channel.

Find out more about upcoming RSA Webinars or past ones here on our website