The social media reactions to the fire of Notre-Dame reflected what is really going on in the minds and hearts of many people, wrote Sascha Lobo in his latest column. For example, right-wing and extreme right-wingers made their conspiracy theories into the cause of the fire out of incoherent news, resentment, and gut feeling, according to Lobo's observation. But even liberals fell into unhelpful reflexes.
In this episode of his podcast, Sascha Lobo explores the question of how the collective processing of disasters works on social media. He speaks with Karolin Schwarz. The freelance journalist is an expert on disinformation on the internet: She founded the project Hoaxmap and worked for the "Fact Finder" of the Tagesschau.
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