About the podcast

The EuroPCom podcast series on public communication is produced by the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in close cooperation with the EuroPCom partners.

Host 

Evi Kiorri, Journalist | Multimedia Producer | Podcaster

Guest 

Trisha Meyer is the Director of the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is the Principal Investigator of the EDMO BELUX project, an EU-funded hub to counter disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg.  

In this episode 

A sound democracy needs informed citizens. A sound democracy can only function well if citizens can obtain proper information on public matters, if they can understand them and of course, if they can deliberate about them, if social media provide citizens with new opportunities to access information, enable them to express their opinions and to participate in democratic processes. But we know it, social media can also undermine democracy by distorting information, promoting false stories and facilitating political manipulation. So are social media a blessing or a curse for democracy, this is what we want to explore with our guest Trisha Meyer, director of the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.  

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