San Diego County led a series of online panels designed to address instances of misinformation that appeared in Board of Supervisors meetings. The panels concluded in March, and inewsource spoke with the moderator about the effort.
designed to address instances of misinformation that appeared in subsequent county meetings. The panels concluded in March, andThis interview has been edited for length and clarity.McDonald:
We also set up a website and updated that on a frequent basis and tried to make it a real-time effort. We're always cognizant that there may be something else that might come up, and we would address that on the website if we need to update it. In our first couple of panels, we knew what the big topics were because they had been repeatedly raised in previous board meetings and other venues. So we put together the first panel and covered a pretty wide range of topics.
Is it disheartening to hear a lot of the same misinformation repeated over and over again in these meetings?It is disheartening. There's misinformation in which you're sort of unintentionally distributing incorrect data. And then there's disinformation in which you're knowingly developing and disseminating incorrect information to advance an agenda or frankly, to deceive people.
Do you think you brought anyone around with these panels from a view that was based in misinformation?The absolute number of citizens in the County of San Diego watching those is probably pretty low, but I do know that there were many instances in which we had a presentation that directly influenced reporting in the next 24, 48 or 72 hours, with clips from our panel being shown on TV or published in the paper.
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