Sinan Aral, David Austin Professor of Management at MIT Sloan and author of the forthcoming book, “The Hype Machine,” discusses insights from his latest research with co-researchers Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy of the MIT Media Lab. Their findings overturn conventional wisdom about how misinformation spreads, what causes it to spread so fast, and who—or what—is spreading it.

It is the largest study of its kind about fake news and is featured in Science, “The Spread of True and False News Online”,  March 9, 2018.

Tim O’Reilly, the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, and the author of many books including, “WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us,” also appears on the program to discuss possible technological and algorithmic solutions.