Interview with Professor Yotam Ophir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr6bD-VlcKg

Today I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Yotam Ophir, a Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo and author of Misinformation and Society, to explore how false information spreads, takes hold, and shapes public behavior across politics, health, and science. We discussed why humans are naturally vulnerable to misinformation, how distrust and political identity determine what people are willing to believe, and why fixing a single platform or targeting a single source is never enough. Dr. Ophir also spoke about who bears responsibility for addressing the misinformation problem and what a meaningful response to it actually looks like.