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Phoebe Matich is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Automated Decision-Making and Society research centre at QUT. In this episode, your host Sebastian speaks to Phoebe about her recently completed PhD, and discusses the idea of truth claims, "fake news", and misinformation in Australian journalism.
If you liked this episode, you can read Phoebe's thesis here.
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