New and Alternative Social Media Sites

Too Much (dis)Information

#Episode 5

Dr. Welton Chang New and Alternative Social Media Sites

Dr. Welton Chang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pyrra Technologies, which tracks threats across alt-social sites. Earlier in his career, he served as an intel officer with the US Army, and then as an analyst with the US Department of Defense, serving in Iraq, where he was assigned to train the Iraqi National Intelligence Cell. Welton has pretty much seen it all when it comes to identifying threats online.

Welton was a senior researcher at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where he developed technical solutions to address disinformation and online propaganda.

Topics discussed:

• Once there were 3 TV channels, now there are hundreds of channels and many social media platforms. How does that affect how we absorb information?
• From Bluesky to Reddit, what are the newest and fastest-growing platforms that we should be paying attention to as an industry?
• Who are on these platforms? Are they for you and me?
• The newest threats that Welton is seeing online?
• The good and the bad of AI-powered music

Relevant links:

Here's a link to a case study Pyrra Tech conducted on Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:linkedInArticle:7058795496693198850/

Welton mentioned the anti-drag show trend. Here’s a link to the analysis that his team conducted:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:linkedInArticle:7049725023455989760/

Too Much (dis)Information

The podcast that explores everything related to disinformation and online networks. To help us make sense of the global town square that is social media, in every episode, our host speaks to a fresh voice to uncover the good, bad, and fake online.

This podcast believes that we are at a pivotal moment in the fight against disinformation. Many people apply the word disinformation to everything from fake news, bot networks, malicious actors, influence operations, manipulation, inauthentic accounts, social media imposters, OSINT threat intelligence, and much more.

So do we...

From the trends to the tools, Too Much (dis)Information brings you the experts on the front line fighting disinformation, and all its forms, across the public sector, brands, cyber security professionals, and academia.

Brought to you by Cyabra