About this episode

The episode critically examines the misleading claims made in a CNN article about a so-called 'rape academy'.

You might have seen the CNN article from a while back entitled Exposing a global ‘rape academy’ . While most of the article is technically true, the broad takeaway that virtually everyone had (including me) was wildly, irresponsibly false. Even if you came across debunks of this, there's a good chance that I'm debunking this even more than you've seen. I don't think people have fully grasped how misleading it was.

People in this episode

Host: Thomas Smith

Topics covered

• misleading claims
• rape culture
• media analysis
• debunking misinformation
• online education
• social responsibility

Keywords

• rape academy
• CNN article
• misleading information
• debunking
• online education
• media critique

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CNN

Books & works: Exposing a global ‘rape academy’

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