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What happens to the truth when an issue explodes on social media? Find out on BREAKING THE DEADLOCK – October 21 at 9 pm
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“Truth Under Fire”
Tuesday, October 21 at 9:00 pm
Explore what happens to the truth when an issue explodes on social media. Professor Aaron Tang moderates a panel of experts as they grapple with disinformation about a controversial school board decision spreading rapidly on social media.
Americans seem to have forgotten how to have a public dialog about challenging topics without it devolving into acrimony and shouting, without it defaulting into a simple “yes” versus “no,” right versus wrong framework. A Deadlock. But research shows that audiences are exhausted by the win-lose model. They want discussions that work toward common ground in finding real world solutions. Deadlock, offers an alternative to that. This is a panel show featuring a talented moderator and 10 to 12 smart, thoughtful panelists with a wide variety of backgrounds and points of view. But in this program, there are no ad hominem attacks, no ‘point-scoring’, no posturing. Here the focus is on constructive conversation. In Deadlock, our moderator, Aaron Tang, Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, will present the panel with a hypothetical scenario based on real life situations to pull participants and the audience into interesting, substantive, challenging, and humanizing conversations about key issues facing us as Americans.
Watch episode one now, on PBS Passport.