Why the Algorithm Loves a Villain, And How to Beat It

When the internet is full of distortions, fake news, and AI-generated slop, how can facts and journalism rise to the top?

Former BBC and Vice journalist Sophia Smith Galer has one possible way to beat the misinformation and exploitation. Her app Sophiana writes "algorithm-ready" video scripts for journalists and experts, to cut through the noise and help them go viral.

In this episode of Revolution.Social, Rabble (Twitter’s first employee) sits down with Sophia to talk about her reporting on our broken digital discourse, as well as her new book "How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words.”

Today on the podcast, Sophia and Rabble explore:

- How bad actors manipulate our feeds

- The transition from traditional newsrooms to video journalism on TikTok

- The decline of language diversity around the world due to "linguicide"

Plus: What happened when Sophia discovered an AI-generated "autobiography" of herself.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

3:53 Gaming the Algorithm and Content Moderation

9:39 Sophia's AI-Hallucinated Biography