Welcome to The Big Threat. A podcast about the global information wars – and how mis- and disinformation are eroding the democracies we live in. In this podcast series, join Bryce Corbett on a trip around the world to meet the experts taking up the fight against fake news – in what has become a race against time.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to The Big Threat. A podcast about the global information wars, and how mis- and disinformation are eroding the democracies we live in. In this podcast series, join Bryce Corbett on a trip around the world to meet the experts taking up the fight against fake news, in what has become a race against time.
Recent episodes include "Episode 1: Brave New World" (1 September 2025, 43 minutes), "Episode 2: The Enemy Within" (1 September 2025, 40 minutes), and "Episode 3: Fightback" (1 September 2025, 39 minutes).
The Big Threat publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 7 episodes.
Booking probability for The Big Threat is 25%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Big Threat requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Big Threat's contact route on record: verified email.
The Big Threat is a news podcast with 7 episodes published.
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Episode #1
<p>Against the backdrop of the devastating LA fires, with a new President in the White House and as Meta announces its retreat from fact checking, Bryce visits San Francisco where public broadcaster KQED is mounting a...
Episode #2
<p>On the eve of a Presidential inauguration, Bryce travels to Washington and New York to meet media literacy advocates and fact-checking organisations nervously assessing their futures. As the FT Correspondent Andrew...
Episode #3
<p>Still in New York, Bryce meets with the News Literacy Project’s Darragh Worland, and compares media literacy education notes with the Poynter Institute’s Brittani Kollar. And against a backdrop of government cuts to...
Episode #4
<p>Bryce visits Estonia and Finland where he discovers a shared border with Russia has made universal media literacy not just a nice to have, but existential. Interviewing the Estonian education minister, Kristina...
Episode #5
<p>In Paris, Bryce discovers how the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terror attacks focused the minds of French people to the importance of media literacy - such that lessons are now mandated in all French schools. He visits a high...
Episode #6
<p>On the last leg of his international fact-finding mission, Bryce travels to London - where an academic’s calls for media literacy to be taught at school might finally be being answered. He also visits The Guardian...
Episode #7
<p>Having spent six weeks travelling to the US, UK, Finland, France and Estonia meeting international experts fighting the scourge of mis- and disinformation, Bryce returns to Australia to take stock of the situation at...
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Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and Government Services, University of Canberra
Stanford University
Poynter Institute
News Literacy Project
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