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theorists. after all, what do you say to an activist who thinks that bill gates is trying to embed secret micro chips and people using the coven vaccine? but where do you draw the line between extremists and skeptics? and how can radicalization be prevented? i'm daniel winter. welcome to our coven! 19 special vaccination rates. show what the majority of the public believe that jobs are safe and effective. but not everyone agrees. and of those people as a fine line between skepticism and conspiracy. then there are the extremes. in recent days, several prominent politicians here in germany were threatened with violence for supporting cobra measures. so why does a loud minority seemingly wanted to fight for what could harmed them or even kill them or their loved ones? since their views are seen as radical,

and although the number of so called clear tinker or lateral thinkers is relatively small, they're certainly vocal. what did the protesters have in common? one study suggests that in southern germany, they often share esoteric and answer pacifica beliefs that generally highly educated and many a former green or left party supporters. however, in eastern germany the far right plays a much greater role. in mentioned d, these people lead largely civil and autonomous lives, but now they feel they're being dictated to by the state will, although multiple esoteric aspects play a role. but there are clear differences of opinion, even among esoteric think is tobias to schuman, is a pediatrician. and fryeburg, he believes in patient autonomy and holistic medicine, but is still vaccinated against covert 19. many of his patients are skeptical,

but he tries to ease their fears. as i know, if he gets our men, is that a common concern is that the vaccines were developed so quickly on the under another fear is that people belief that there has to be people out there who have had some negative side effects. baker didn't welcomed after i tried to reassure them and ease their doubts, also convinced them to a certain extent is a bidding to niemen. and when it comes to children, having to wear a face mask at school to buy as to shall been says he won't issue exceptions. especially after a karone of ours outbreak. at this nearby veiled off school, infected dozens of children. authorities later discovered 50 pupils had been issued fake musk exemption certificates. there are always going to be debates about what's right and wrong to do in append, wrapped in the pan that make a paranoid conspiracy is particularly dangerous phenomenon. so let's speak to

psychologists and each to disco. thank you very much for joining us. you've written extensively about so called national narcissism and the spread of conspiracies during the pandemic. what we'll findings thank you for having me. in our research, we find that national narcissism tends to be positively associated bed. the believe in conspiracy theory is related to covet 19, so national narcissism, we can think of it as individual nasa system on the social scale. so it is the concept that people have an insulated belief of how great their country is, but at the same time have also the desire to have that greatness being recognized by others. we were told that story, continue. yeah. yeah. so we find a, this related to the believe in covet 19 conspiracy theory. and then there's also a relationship to the believe to with us health behaviors to combat the virus.

what do we draw the line between skeptics and extremists? that's a good question. i think get, think are open for different opinions and to consider eternity and extreme with them. it's more associated with not being open to having discussions and updating one's belief and how strong these movements after all, we can see in most western countries, majority of people have accepted getting the vaccine. yeah, related pan. we looked at 56 countries and we saw that there is quite a variance in how popular cobra 900 conspiracy theories are and also how popular this national narcissistic ideas are. so for example, what we find is that in india and greece, this idea of national narcissism and consequent colbert 19 conspiracy theory

believes are actually very high. whereas, and we, then we see that both of them are actually very, you know. so we have to look at the countries on an individual scale to understand this psychological process. when you look at the countries on the individual level or even regions within countries, what are the causes for those differences in the strength of conspiracy movements between different places? yes, so it is, we know that conspiracy theory believes are associated with a sense of uncertainty as sense of having been left behind by for example, the government and countries really just for the, for in how people feel about being considered by governmental policies or how good policy makers where in communicating the complexity of the virus. and what can we do with this research with the studies that you've

been doing and, and other people like you into lexi and conspiracy theorists. one of the, the takeaways and how do we use them? so i think to take the take away that we found in our research as we have to distinguish between people who are skeptical, su, sad, who just need more information about the vaccines. and then people who are, am strongly conspiracy theory believers who need to be more addressed in their over on motives to believe conspiracy theories such as feeling out of control, a feeling uncertain. so we have to meet these needs before talking about conspiracy theory, beliefs that them okay, so it's also about meeting their needs and understanding them in a way as well, and that we can reach out to them without understanding them. so if there's someone who's watching this right now and saying, here they go, spreading their propaganda again. what is your message to them?

because now you can reach out to them. what would you say to am? i think i would say that 1st of all, how likely it is, how likely is it that these cover obs wouldn't have been uncovered yet when we think about how many people would be involved in, in covering up that vaccines. i actually, dad lee or harmful, is it really likely that there wouldn't have been a whistleblower just yet? and then on the other hand, i'm also thinking about how many people around me are actually believing it. and how many people might actually say they believe these ideas to fit in a group and having an open discussion might be actually very fruitful. so seems we have to be skeptical about the skeptics, artist anesco psychologist. thank you very much for those very insightful now, it's time for you to ask the questions and for us to reply his of your question about why the vaccines can have long term delayed side effects. answering it our

science correspondent, derek williams. o, has there ever been a vaccine that has caused side effects? yes, in the future. 0, one of the justifications that people who are vaccine hesitant often give for why they don't want to be vaccinated as that. we don't know what kind of effects coven vaccines might only have years down the road. and of course, that's an argument that can't be refuted, because none of us can see the future. we can only make decisions about it based on the severity of the pandemic. now, and the data that we have at hand, both as individuals and as societies, it's all we have to go on. it's not a perfect system, unexpected stuff happens all the time, but it's the only system we have as we seek on to stop suffering and save

lives. and, and one great source of data is the information that we've gathered from vaccine drives in the past. that past experience with many, many different vaccines for a wide range of diseases makes a couple of things really clear. first, is that given a large enough sample size, some side effects are inevitably going to crop up. and very rarely, a currently approved coven vaccine can cause, for example, someone to go in to ana, lactic shock, or develop a thrombosis or develop my o cardite us. but billions of doses had been distributed so far over the course of nearly a year. and there is nothing indicating any wide scale trends or delayed term effects for any of the approved covered vaccines. that's because the experts

say vaccines are only given a couple of times and break down quickly in the body after initiating an immune memory. which means if side effects are going to occur, they pretty much always do so within a few days or weeks of vaccination. so while it's true that for a very few unlucky people, a vaccine could cause a side effect that might have an impact on their life for years to come. the experts say there's no evidence linking any vaccine to side effects that only show up many months or years later. and finally, worries over and all micron waves has even reached the edge of the arctic circle tourism operators and finish lapland. still recovering from

a disastrous 2020. now there are hopes and fears as the frosty regions. winter tourism season gets underway at santa claus village, amusement park, welcome of putting finishing touches to this ice restaurant and hotel. but how many guests will experience this fun park as anyone's guess? it's not a case of finished restrictions, but other nations responses to the only one variant, including travel restrictions, test requirements, and quarantine measures. and that's it for me all covered 19 special. i'm daniel winter in berlin. thank you for watching shift your guide to life in that digital world. explore the latest online trends. navigate your way through the digital jungle. get a global perspective. we'll be your guide and show you what's possible.

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i have nothing to hide. when it comes to data privacy, everyone has heard that phrase before. it's a bit naive though, considering companies definitely know more about us. and we like using google as an example. a group of artists from berlin and vienna shows just how much information our data profiles provide. in experiment, the artist collective law. com reveals how much google news about us and we want to have a closer look at the data that big companies like google and facebook alignment every day and facebook you take us, you bought. so i thought about how to conduct like and artistic data experiment were leaked us enough, where we can try and seen that if we could reconstruct an entire person's life, couldn't. i'm just their data. and that means that says without ever seeing the person owner that we didn't mention, we gave it a try. the in hub on the samuels, probably it. ready there documentary film shows how the group started out by

looking for potential test persons whose data they could anonymously analyze on google. ringback ringback ready about 100 people applied in the end. the data in austin was selected. oh, it was from the daphne, the group reconstructed the test person's life movie, nodded viennese actress natalie, currently stars as the test person's doppelganger. bringing the data to life in this film where she reenact leases life, ah, finally the to meet face to face. hello dee had me done. then she started telling me what kind of a person she ever leave out. i am that it's been as a so i was born in a little town into oil on the bio pick from leases. google data includes fond

memories, her 1st job or training to become a confectionary. but her data also contains very private details, anger and eating disorder, depression crises, upon being confronted with these memories, lisa has to take a break from events because we'll take a short break for me a little that feeling well. it's this intimacy that makes the art project me to measure highly political well, what is not open thugs, depression, eating disorders and crises. this is what google knows about us. perhaps there really are some things that we should keep to ourselves. but the experiment goes further. the ok, an artist also focus on me. during the film i need to answer questions. this may

seem basic, but the algorithms from may to measure also process other information. at the end of the program, we show you what else they look out for. and while the results about me are google collect my data as soon as i start searching for something online or what's the youtube video? the same is true for apple, amazon and facebook. the magic word here is cookies. cookies are actually tiny text files that are saved on your device. in homeless cases, cookies contain information such as you'll use a name or the language the website should be displayed and but data brokers and advertising companies so called 3rd party uses. also use cookies to gather data. as soon as you allow cookies, your data is collected. the online forms that prevent them from doing so often long and confusing. they regularly ignored and people pay with their data. and it's not

just your i p address or user name that they collect, but your browser, history, arts, and devices to this can make quite a difference. companies like amazon are able to use data such as a person's location or device to give customers different prices. individual uses online behavior can likewise be tracked on many websites. data collect is paid to use cookies on thousands of websites, small tenuously from all this data. they create individual profiles and the more detail they are, the more profitable in real time bidding data brokers sell user data profiles to the highest bidder in real time was the uses are still on the website, advertises by them to create personalized split. second, add to pip. this means that when i search online, the information collected is instantly sent off to companies,

which can then target me with ad words as a result online services or anything but free. i am being monitored in real time with my data sold for profit. so could avoid this by browsing anonymously using a vpn to hide my ip address. unfortunately, no, the company's was collect our data still recognize us from our digital fingerprints . for example, they know which operating system i'm using, which plugins i installed, what resolution my screen is and which forms i installed on my device. this information is enough to identify me online, but our data is not only used for advertising, banks and insurance companies. i also keen on having access to it many online banks use machine learning algorithms to conduct credit assessments. they use massive amounts of data collected from different sources. how quickly does the user complete their credit application, and how many mistakes do they make?

were there facebook friends of what sir? google search history, like? all this data is combined and then compared to that of existing customers. see, a user has search for online gambling sites before and has installed a font on their device that is also used by online casinos. this could lead to their credit application being rejected. even health insurance companies are interested in data like from fitness trackers or exercise and sharing this data, think it you benefit and even a more affordable health insurance offer. digital monitoring could have positive sites. for example, you can receive a bonus for exercising, but there's a fine line between this and digital surveillance in china. social scoring systems have been introduced in some regions,

algorithms observe and evaluate citizens behavior. if someone smokes to much or plays video games too often, they might not be allowed to buy 1st class train tickets for example. it sounds very much like jobs always big brother in 1984 algorithms play a large role online. facebook taked organ, youtube, our personal data is used for content recommendations. this means every person sees something different online. some scientists are concerned that this could lead to the disintegration of our digitalized society into factional groups. when content includes fake news and alternative truths, this becomes especially problematic. radical vaccination skeptics and corona virus deny is often claimed to be living in a dictatorship comparing themselves to the jewish population in nazi germany. as algorithms keep feeding them more of the same, they believe in conspiracy theories is encouraged, right?

when social media 1st started up, there was widespread concern that algorithms might recommend content that keeps uses in the so called filter level, where they can use quickly spreads. but that's not quite how it works as you tube sions, that garbage effect. wondering if there was this filter bubble effect. and the public pressure on youtube was increasing what we did. yeah, so they kept adjusting their algorithms. and in a study, we were able to show that the content that you can find on youtube or that is recommended to you. one has become increasingly diverse in recent years, most a tom, it's not the full to bubble effect seems to be less influential than previously. assumed you are, i'm a guy, a study shows that you tube algorithms recommend a diverse range of contact with you on the other hand,

experts and think you knew how to trick the algorithm in a certain amount of wrong information will always end up on the platform a form and an italian study from 2021. analyzed millions of tweets about political issues and found that people who often click on content containing fake news or conspiracy theories usually had extreme political views to start with. and they also often actively choose to read posts containing similar beings. i believe they're still way too much fake news on social media, but algorithms alone are not responsible for users becoming radicalized. back at the start of the show, we introduced you to the experiment made to measure which aims to show how much personal data is available online by closely monitoring the participants. so let's see what the experiment was able to find out about me. me

and now watching the metal metal of him on the website. the special thing about it is i'm being tracked myself by watching and i will get a person melody profile generated for me at the end. let's have a look 4 times as many searches aesthetically the film is great. it's also interactive. sometimes you have to interpret all the collected data yourself to guess what happens next. but watching a film at work is not as easy as it sounds. and we'll let's keep going alone, sitting in my room in england, i learned about an online fitness program that i won't forget anytime i think that sometime. so that was it. interesting that now i'm really excited to see what the oddest group on has to say about me after spending only one hour on their website.

here is the psychological profile. you. ringback have a critical mind by your snack of your mouse movement and average speed. we should read more trivial stuff. i think you reached only 35 percent of your propulsion test. what you want. i was really surprised to see what conclusions about my character can be drawn from the data. the data even includes my mouse movements. it might seem absurd at 1st, but it's exactly this type of information that data brokers use to analyze as precisely. and it's not a pleasant thought. what are you most concerned about when it comes to data privacy? let us know. i see you next time. ah

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