On Shifting Ground

For America’s Democracy… and Your Well-Being, Check the Facts

The 2024 US election season is officially underway, and experts are already bracing for the array of threats to free and fair elections that were made all too real the last time Americans elected a president. And this time, many are concerned that it’ll be even harder to combat fake election claims online and political violence.
  
 Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros, co-founders of UC Berkeley’s  Human Rights Center Investigations Lab, join Ray Suarez to break down how our digital lives are destroying our mental health… and our democracy. 
  
 Plus: check out our past conversation with Alexa Koenig on  How Technology Fights – and Fuels – Misinformation to learn more about what UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Investigations Lab does.
  
 Guests:
  
 Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros, co-founders of UC Berkeley’s  Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and co-authors of “Graphic: Trauma and Meaning in our Online Lives”
  
 Host:
  
 Ray Suarez
  
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Do you ever feel like reality is shifting beneath your feet? Veteran journalist Ray Suarez spent forty years covering elections, civil wars, and pandemics that shaped the way we live. He’s seen entire countries flipped upside down and right side up… and now he’s here to bring a sensible voice to our endless doom-scrolling. Each week, Ray hosts conversations with journalists, leaders and policy experts that explore how people from New Hampshire to New Guinea are navigating our rapidly changing world. A co-production of Commonwealth Club - World Affairs and KQED.