Disinformation, Media, and Democracy

​Join this cross-disciplinary panel of legal scholars, media experts, and political scientists to consider the most pressing questions about disinformation in democratic politics today. Panelists will briefly discuss key findings from their own research before addressing questions about both the threat of disinformation and new forms of media, as well as potential opportunities that our contemporary media-scape may afford us.
Panelists:
Brendan Nyhan, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
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Magdalena Wojcieszak, Department of Communication, UC Davis
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Kate Klonick, St. John's University School of Law
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Yunkang Yang, Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, George Washington University
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Shannon McGregor, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, UNC, Chapel Hill
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Host:
Robert Blair, Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
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Moderators:
Marisa Smith, School of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Elizabeth Sperber, Department of Political Science, University of Denver
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This event is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Democratic Erosion Consortium and the University of Denver.

[@cheri238]

People must learn Thank you. 💯❤️

[@justgivemethetruth]

10:50 - Well, I learned something here. I did not realize that the First Amendment protects the right to lie? Is that without any qualification at all? What about ,for example, the CIA head Clapper lying to Congress about the US not collecting our phone call information? Apparently you also cannot lie to a police officer. We have a whole culture of lying ... but we call it advertising. We ought to revisit that idea.

[@pierreroberge1684]

Next time make sure nobody move like the lady in middle rigth,

[@justgivemethetruth]

I think she is on a treadmill, exercising.

[@solgato5186]

If only we'd had a Ministry of Truth, Christopher Steele's pee tape would have been real!

[@maxrobespierre9176]

PS: lose the thanks-so-much. Use thanks or thank you.