Health in the age of disinformation: trust, tech and truth

Name: Health in the age of disinformation: trust, tech and truth
Start: 2026-05-13T20:00:00+10:00
End: 2026-05-13T21:00:00+10:00
Location: State of Grace

Schedule

Wed May 13 2026 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

State of Grace | Melbourne, VI

Learn how disinformation exploits human psychology, and what we can do to resist manipulation in an increasingly complex digital world.
About this Event
Talk Description
This talk offers a bird's-eye view of how disinformation campaigns are designed to take advantage of our psychology as well as the nature and structure of our information systems. Professor Andy Perfors will discuss how the incentive structures and nature of these systems are misaligned with human cognition, and how this is exploited by malicious actors. You'll also walk away with some ideas for what we can do as both individuals and organisations or institutions.
Bio
Professor Andy Perfors
Andrew Perfors is the Director of the Complex Human Data Hub in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on understanding how people learn from and share information with each other, and how that process of collaborative meaning-making changes the information environment itself. Having grown up in a rural, religious, and conservative part of America, Andy's understanding of disinformation is informed by multiple aspects of his lived experience as well as his academic research.