Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate talks to Rabbi Dovid Lewis and Imam Nasser Kurdy about why social media algorithms are helping to drive us further apart by feeding our urge to click and share only the most biased and distressing news.

Imran is the go-to expert for governments and policy makers around the world who want to understand the way social media firms capture our attention by keeping us in a constant state of anxiety and anger, and often spread misinformation and disinformation.

He recently gave expert evidence before a parliamentary inquiry into the social media's role in the 2024 UK summer riots.

He's guested on the BBC and NBC, and is regularly quoted in the New York Times, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Independent, just to name a few.

Although Imran is currently living in the United States he is a native of Manchester and this podcast draws on his deep connection to the city, with the many personal relationships he developed in his formative years with members of the Jewish and Muslim communities there.

The wide-ranging conversation addresses the complexities of establishing truth during events like the Gaza war, and the challenges Jews and Muslims face when trying to connect in digital spaces. But it's not all doom and gloom as he suggests ways in which the two faiths can still build real understanding across community lines.

This is a Mark Schweiger and Larchmont Productions co-production, supported by the Cardinal Partnership Foundation.

If you have any comments or suggestions about the podcast please email: mark@schweigers.uk or philip@larchmontfilms.com

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