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11. What Does A Year's Worth Of Fact-Checks Tell Us About Misinformation In India?Listen now (50 min) | A bonus episode explaining our 2022 report.

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Feb 3

And what's to come in Year Four.

Jan 29

And how might we do so, free of biases? Introducing the 'Story-Check' (alpha).

Mar 22

10. What Is An 'IT Cell' Really? Listen now (45 min) | I for Identity, Intersectionality, Information Overload, and IT Cells in Episode 10 of Media Buddhi A-Z. Also, we interview Sophie Zhang, Facebook Whistleblower.

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Jan 8

9. Is 'Homosexual' A Neutral Term? And Revisiting The Hate Speech-Extreme Speech Framework Listen now (40 min) | H for Homophobia, Hate Speech, and Horse-trading in Episode 9 of Media Buddhi A-Z. Also, we have our first guest on the podcast!

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Archis Chowdhury

Nov 20, 2022

8. A No-Confusion Guide To Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Listen now (46 min) | G for Gender, Gaslighting, Grassroots, And Gatekeeping in Episode 8 of Media Buddhi A-Z.

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Oct 30, 2022

7. What Does Feminism For Men Look Like And What Exactly Is The Difference Between Far-Right, Fascism, Fringe Elements and AntiFa?Listen now (50 min) | F for Fake News, Facts, Feminism, Framing the debate, Far-Right, Far-Left, And Fascism in the seventh episode of Media Buddhi A-Z.

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Oct 6, 2022

6. 'Extreme Speech' Is A Better Term Than 'Hate Speech'. And Have We Retired 'Eve Teasing' As A Term Yet? Listen now (46 min) | E for Equity-Diversity-Inclusion, Ethics, Extreme Speech and Eve Teasing.

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Sep 15, 2022

5. Demographic Anxiety Leads To Religionized Disinformation + Decolonising Our Minds Listen now (37 min) | D for Delhi, Disinformation, Decisions, Demographic Anxiety, Decolonisation, Dog-whistles in the fifth episode of Media Buddhi…

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Aug 11, 2022

4. M J Akbar, J K Rowling Aren't Really Cancelled, And The Dangers Of The Chilling Effect Listen now (55 min) | C for Cancel Culture, Cognitive Bias, Chilling Effect, Cheap Fakes, Crony Capitalism, Conspiracy Theories and Cishet in Episode #4…

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Archis Chowdhury

Jul 28, 2022

3. Call Them By Their True Names On the importance of giving names and creating labels to describe our march towards a more just world.

Jul 21, 2022

2. What Does Being A Bhakt Really Mean? And How Does The Idea Of Bakwas Fit Into Our Information Ecosystem?Listen now (47 min) | B for Bakwas, Bullshit), Bhakt, Backfire Effect, Blame, Bias and Big Lie in the second episode of Media Buddhi A-Z.

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Archis Chowdhury

Jul 14, 2022

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