The Infodemic by Joel Simon & Robert Mahoney

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The Infodemic

How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free

Columbia Global Reports

by Joel Simon & Robert Mahoney

Narrator Rob Shapiro

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Length 4 hours 56 minutes

Language English

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Summary
About the authors

An inside look at how the governments of Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, India and the US used COVID as a pretense to undermine freedom

The Infodemic lays bare the mechanisms of modern censorship and shows how they were used to undermine the response to the greatest global pandemic in a century. Beginning in China, the book charts the onslaught of COVID censorship through Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, India and inside the Trump White House. Modern censors not only restrict the flow of information but also open the floodgates to overwhelm the public with lies and half truths. Increased surveillance in the name of public health, the collapse of public trust in institutions, and the demise of local news reporting, help governments hijack the flow of information and usurp power. The Infodemic shows how, under the cover of COVID, governments have undermined freedom and taken control. This new global political order may be the legacy of the disease.

Politics & Economy Nonfiction Medicine

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. He is the author of The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom, and We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom.

Robert Mahoney is deputy executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and has worked as a Reuters correspondent with postings in Southeast Asia, West Africa, India, Israel, France and Germany.