Author: 'Angertainment'; 'Facts & Other Lies'. Social impact; disinformation; digital narratives. Founder, https://xitter.gq/t.co/GCt7DE0oHI & https://xitter.gq/t.co/s8AQDVi916
New York & Sydney
Joined April 2009
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🤬 OUT TODAY! 🤬 Angertainment: How Social Media Outrage Ruined Everything
Available in all good bookstores, and wherever you get your audiobooks and ebooks: simonandschuster.com.au/book…
#angertainment #auspol #socialmedia #disinformation
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Chat with @edcoper didn't go as planned. He calls me a grifter and regrets coming on the podcast. We discuss the new digital duty of care bill. We do end up discussing his book about rage bait and algorithms.... 🤔
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It might seem ironic, even provocative, to post this brilliant discussion here, on angertainment’s home ground, but I highly recommend it. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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🧠 “Truth is not really that important to us as a species. There are things way more important than truth ... getting along is the primary one. If we have to call black white in order to get along we so readily do."
On Curtin’s Cast, author and campaign strategist @EdCoper explains why tribal identity often matters more than facts. From the endless arguments over the crowd size at Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration to the way social media rewards outrage, Ed argues that “the tribal answer” frequently becomes more important than the truthful one.
Why are humans wired this way? And what does it mean for democracy in the age of angertainment?
🎙️ Listen to Episode 60:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
#CurtinsCast #Angertainment #SocialMedia #Politics #Democracy #Algorithms #Misinformation
Only two weeks until Angertainment is released into the wild! But why wait? This Saturday's Good Weekend is running an edited extract to whet your appetite.
Can't wait until Saturday? The online version is already up!
smh.com.au/national/the-ange…
The alarm bell I am ringing in today's @smh: social licence on renewables cannot be taken for granted. Incredibly, the anti-renewables movement has outspent the federal Liberal Party account this election on social media ads.
smh.com.au/national/maga-ins… #auspol
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So we've put in a pitch for a podcast session at SXSW this year - but we need votes!
We're doing it with friend of the podcast @edcoper and it will be great. I hope they let me bring some CBCo tins - it better not just be instant coffee and sadness!
publicvoting.sxswsydney.com/…
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"A network of organised disinformation sows doubt, kills policy reform & keep us at odds..Behind it all..a network of industrialists fuelling a noise machine..the global membership of fossil fuel-backed #AtlasNetwork..drives the Trumpian agenda globally."
theguardian.com/us-news/comm…
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A good story can be one of the most dangerous devices in the world. Join @edcoper Kosta Lucas @meganphelps and @frankelly08 in this panel live at Carriageworks, Sydney.
SUN 25 AUG // 5:45PM // ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIED🔥
Book now at festivalofdangerousideas.com… #FODI
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Check out our recent Fireside chat with @edcoper, author of Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age. Ed emphasizes that companies must understand people's motivations rather than simply treating customers as solely price-driven and ignoring their deeper values.
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Join us for a fascinating session with Ed Coper, an expert in communications for social impact and the author of Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age. 👉 Get your tickets here: events.humanitix.com/firesid…
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A heartfelt thank you everyone who attended last night's workshop on Disinformation: How to Spot It &How to Respond. Your presence and active participation made the event a great success! 🎉
A special shout-out to our presenters, Ed Coper & Lee Constable
@edcoper @Constababble
How to win friends and influence people, 2024 edition
Did you think @edcoper would reference @taylorswift13 at #WASymposium2024?
#WhatBringsUsTogether? Maybe the answer is the Eras tour!
What an incredible Global Perspectives keynote today - exploring the timely challenge of mis & dis information.
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News from Tesla: we are leaving the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and resigning from its board. The FCAI has repeatedly made claims about new vehicle efficiency standards that are demonstrably false. We can't stand by that. Here's the letter. drive.google.com/file/d/1OPQ…
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A cautionary important thread on how the culture war mongers do their work.
The last week shows how Peter Dutton plans to win the next election, assisted by media who moonlight as the LNP PR machine, working in unison with a conservative lobby group funded by billionaires.
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Great to see more focus on the background causes - we obsess about the fact a piece of misinformation is false, hence the rush to correct it as the solution, not the root causes that led it to be effective
New essay: I argue that misinformation is often better viewed as a symptom of deep societal problems rather than their cause. When that’s true, interventions like debunking and censorship are unlikely to help – and might make things worse. (1/15)
iai.tv/articles/misinformati…
I spoke to @SatPaper about the biggest danger facing Australia right now: the wholesale import and weaponisation of the #MAGA playbook. “If you think this was about the specific issue of the referendum, you’re missing the point.”
Tony Abbott is on its advisory board and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price worked as its spokesperson before entering parliament.
Who else is powering the right-wing campaigning organisation that defeated the Voice? satpa.pe/mk235TY
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Gidday everyone!
ICYMI myself and Milton Mango (my drag bloke persona) both appeared on stage for @danilic's @ARationalFear's live recording at SXSW Sydney!
In-person punters got an eye-full of King Milt's chest hair but listeners will have to imagine.
arationalfear.substack.com/p…
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The right is firing misinformation bullets in its climate war on renewables – here’s a way to fight back.
Words Peter Lewis @_Essential_M
Image @TomRed43
#auspol #climatechange #PeterDutton #prebunking theguardian.com/australia-ne…
