Elon Law's associate dean of Academic Affairs took part in a Dec. 6, 2016, conversation about the future of "fake news" where no one knows what is real - and what can be done about it.
The Dec. 6, 2016, podcast of “Flash Forward” also included reflections by Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, and Brooke Borel, a science journalist and the author of “The Chicago Guide to Fact Checking.”
The episode is 34 minutes and is available for livestream or download.
Armijo is an affiliate fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and he teaches and researches in the areas of the First Amendment, constitutional law, torts, administrative law, media and internet law, and international freedom of expression. Armijo’s current scholarship addresses the interaction between new technologies and freedom of speech.
In the podcast, he describes his trip to Rwanda, where they tried to crack down on dangerous journalism after the media aided in a genocide.