何を信じればよいのか？ | Paula Slier | TEDxUniversity of Johannesburg

20年以上にわたりガザ、シリア、レバノン、アフガニスタン、イラク、ウクライナ、リビアなどの紛争地域から取材してきの戦争特派員パウラ・スライアーが、情報が人々の信念をどのように形作るかを論じます。戦争地域での経験と、現在のデジタル情報環境を踏まえ、アルゴリズム、憤り、感情的な刺激、物語による操作が日常生活にどう影響するかを検討します。中心的な主張は、知性だけでは操作から身を守れないというもので、感情、恐れ、希望、帰属意識、アイデンティティが重なるとき人は最も脆弱になるとしています。

• 紛争地域から学んだプロパガンダと物語の教訓
• アルゴリズムと憤りが信念に与える影響
• 感情とアイデンティティが脆弱性を高める理由

For more than two decades, Paula has reported from some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones - Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya and beyond - where information can be as powerful as weapons themselves. In war zones, survival depends on understanding narratives: propaganda, emotional triggering, fear, identity, and the stories people are persuaded to believe. For years, she believed information warfare belonged mainly to politics, governments, extremist groups, and digital platforms. This talk explores what happens when the battlefield moves beyond geography and politics and into everyday human experience. Drawing on lessons from physical war zones and today’s digital information environment, it examines how algorithms, outrage, emotional activation, and narrative manipulation increasingly blur the boundaries between public warfare and private vulnerability. At its core, this talk argues that intelligence alone does not protect us from manipulation. Human beings are most vulnerable when emotion, hope, fear, belonging, and identity intersect. Global War Correspondent Information Warfare Specialist & International Speaker Founder | Newshound Media International From Gaza to Ukraine, war correspondent Paula Slier has spent more than two decades reporting from the world’s frontlines, where she discovered that the world’s oldest weapon isn’t technology or propaganda, but human emotion. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx