S4E14: The Disinfectant for Disinformation - Marcus Kolga

The Quiet Professional

Original Recording Date: 2025MAR26.

Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch.

Views and opinions of the participants are their own, unless otherwise stated.

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TOPICS:

• Guests:
  • Marcus Kolga - the founder and director of DisinfoWatch and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier and CDA institutes.
  • DisinfoWatch - a leading Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform. Our data is sourced through an international network of journalists, civil society organizations and analysts, as well as some automated sources, and is anaylized and exposed in order raise broader general awareness of disinformation and build long-term resilience against it.
    
• What it means to be sanctioned.
• Mis- and disinformation.
  • Effects on politics, media, and the populace.
• Scale of disinfo operations.
• Question, educate, inform.
• Solutions for different industries and organizations.

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REFERENCES / RESOURCES:

Important Links:

1. DisinfoWatch website: https://disinfowatch.org/
2. DisinfoWatch Active Measures Podcast: https://disinfowatch.org/active-measures-podcast/

Profiles and Social Media:

• Find DisinfoWatch on:
  • X: https://twitter.com/DisinfoW
  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisinfoWatch-106551727876167
• Find Marcus on:
  • X: https://x.com/kolga
  • LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/marcus-kolga