Bot Armies, Dead Internet, and Misinformation Farms with Amil Khan
From This Is Propaganda by BRINK
May 30, 2025 · 40 min · Season 1 · Episode 15
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of bot armies and misinformation on social media with guest Amil Khan.
With endless bot armies infiltrating social media feeds and harnessing the algorithm to control narratives and public opinion, our media system is becoming increasingly polluted.How long will it be before the internet is officially “dead,” where more comments and views are bots than human? Our conversation this week is with Amil Khan, a former Reuters foreign correspondent and BBC investigative journalist with over two decades of experience in media and communications. Amil is now the CEO of Valent, a firm specializing in countermeasures for organizations under threat from bot networks and disinformation campaigns. Welcome to DoubleThink, conversations inspired by This Is Propaganda. If you haven’t yet, check out the Webby Award–winning first season. — BRINK media group is re-imagining how brands, causes and artists compete in the oversaturated attention marketplace through original productions and branded entertainment. Website: thisispropaganda.show Instagram: instagram.com/thisispropagandashow Email: propaganda@brink.com
People in this episode
Host: BRINK
Guest: Amil Khan
Topics covered
- bot armies
- misinformation
- social media
- public opinion
- disinformation campaigns
Keywords
- bot armies
- misinformation
- social media
- disinformation
- public opinion
- Valent
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Reuters, BBC, Valent, BRINK
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