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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily OS. I'm Zara Seidler,

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Speaker 1: joined by Sam Kozlowski to take you through the day's news.

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Speaker 1: It is the eighth of March and we're here to

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Speaker 1: run you through what is making headlines. Sam, We're throwing

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Speaker 1: first to Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: According to the United Nations, one point five million people

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Speaker 2: have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries since Russia's invasion into

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Speaker 2: the nation. The United Nations Refugee Agency tweeted ten days

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Speaker 2: one point five million people. This is now the fastest

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Speaker 2: growing refugee crisis since World War II.

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Speaker 1: To Domestic News Now and at least eighteen people have

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Speaker 1: died in New South Wales and Queensland as a result

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Speaker 1: of the flooding. Yesterday, it was announced the body of

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Speaker 1: a man was found in a submerged vehicle in the

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Speaker 1: South Burnett region, taking Queensland's death toll to twelve. There

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Speaker 1: have been at least six flood related deaths confirmed in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: And Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannonbrooks announced he and his

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Speaker 2: partners will walk away from their bid to acquire AGL,

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Speaker 2: which is Australia's largest energy company and accelerate the closure

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Speaker 2: of its coal plants. This move comes after the AGL

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Speaker 2: board rejected a second bid from the group. Canon Brooks

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Speaker 2: said it was a terrible outcome and the group had

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Speaker 2: abandoned the bid with great sadness.

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Speaker 1: And finally to today's good news, and of course it

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Speaker 1: coincides with International Women's Day, Radway Helmi has become the

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Speaker 1: first woman judge to sit on Egypt's State Council. Helmi

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Speaker 1: was one of ninety eight women appointed to join the

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Speaker 1: council last year and it is one of the top

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Speaker 1: courts in the country. For today's deep dive, we are

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Speaker 1: talking to Mariah Lattice about a phenomenon that we are

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Speaker 1: seeing unfolding at the same time as the Ukraine crisis,

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Speaker 1: and that is the rise in misinformation online. Maria, you

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Speaker 1: spoke to an expert on the issue. What did he say?

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Speaker 3: So, as users of social media, you might have actually

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Speaker 3: noticed the increase in content surrounding the invasion on your

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Speaker 3: new news feeds. And with that increase in content, experts

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Speaker 3: have raised concerns, as you said, about the misleading content

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Speaker 3: that has spread on platforms. In particular, there have been

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Speaker 3: fake images that have spread on visual based apps like TikTok,

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Speaker 3: Instagram and sometimes Twitter when you see photos that have

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Speaker 3: been posted within tweets. With all that in mind, I

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Speaker 3: did speak to Professor Daniel Angus from the Queensland University

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Speaker 3: of Technology about the issue. Professor Angus explained that there

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Speaker 3: has been an undeniable shift in the past decade with

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Speaker 3: how news is consumed. Younger audiences stick out in particular

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Speaker 3: as they often consume news incidentally on their news feeds

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Speaker 3: when they have their daily scroll.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're not a digital native, can you

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Speaker 1: just explain what consuming news incidentally means.

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Speaker 3: So think about when you wake up in the morning

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Speaker 3: and you go and you check Instagram and you are

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Speaker 3: scrolling through your friends' stories and catching up from the

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Speaker 3: content on the night before. As you're scrolling through Instagram stories,

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Speaker 3: you see that one has posted an article about a

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Speaker 3: particular news story. Let's use the invasion as an example.

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Speaker 3: You've accidentally come across news without actively seeking it, and

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Speaker 3: that content hasn't come up because you have followed that

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Speaker 3: specific news account. It's come up because of an algorithm.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so some of this content is appearing on a

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Speaker 1: user's feed organically. What's that opening up to so it.

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Speaker 3: Becomes particularly problematic during a crisis like the invasion. In

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Speaker 3: a time of crisis like what we're seeing now, users

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Speaker 3: can often see content like photos like videos that is

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Speaker 3: highly engaging, but they're not necessarily critically consuming it as

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Speaker 3: they never actually followed the account in the first place.

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Speaker 3: And then, on top of that, to sort of add

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Speaker 3: to the confusion, misinformation can often look like it has

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Speaker 3: come from a credible source even when it actually hasn't.

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Speaker 3: As users tend to have strong emotional reactions to this

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Speaker 3: sort of content, users tend to then become more willing

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Speaker 3: to share it.

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Speaker 1: Can you give me an example of what this could

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Speaker 1: look like in the context of the Russia Ukraine crisis?

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Speaker 3: I asked this question to Professor Angus to see if

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Speaker 3: he could think of any examples of viral misinformation throughout

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Speaker 3: the invasion, and he gave one specific example of a

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Speaker 3: photo that recently went viral on Twitter, which seemingly showed

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Speaker 3: two Ukrainian children waving to soldiers on the frontline as

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Speaker 3: they passed. Whilst this photo was depicted as occurring during

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Speaker 3: the Russian invasion, TDA found evidence from Facebook that the

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Speaker 3: photo was from six years ago. Now. Twitter did put

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Speaker 3: a warning on the tweet saying it was out of context. However,

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Speaker 3: I found other tweets from other users posting the same

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Speaker 3: photo and depicting a similar image, but there was no

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Speaker 3: warning from Twitter on those tweets. So there were inconsistencies

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Speaker 3: among different tweets from different users.

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Speaker 1: Picking up on the point of Twitter, because I think

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Speaker 1: this is the really important point. It's not always on

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Speaker 1: the user to be able to discern misinformation. There is

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Speaker 1: also a role and a responsibility that these platforms have

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Speaker 1: to play. What have they said about the concerns around misinformation.

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Speaker 3: I did reach out to Twitter about what it does

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Speaker 3: to combat misinformation, and according to a Twitter spokesperson, they said,

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Speaker 3: as we do around major global events, our safety and

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Speaker 3: integrity teams are monitoring for potential risks associated with the

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Speaker 3: conflict to protect the health of the service, including identifying

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Speaker 3: and disrupting attempts to amplify folds and misleading information, and

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Speaker 3: to advance the speed and scale of our enforcement.

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Speaker 1: It's really interesting, and it's also definitely something that is

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Speaker 1: very new to the world. We haven't really had a

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Speaker 1: crisis or a war that has played out through TikTok

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Speaker 1: or played out through Twitter or Facebook, and so now

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Speaker 1: we're coming to grips of the fact that there is

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Speaker 1: a lot of misinformation that spreads very very quickly, and

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Speaker 1: what role individuals as consumers play versus the role that

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Speaker 1: these platforms play. We're interested to know what you think

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Speaker 1: on this, so DMS with your thoughts and we'll be

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Speaker 1: of course so much news in the world. Have a

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