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“The True Costs of Misinformation: Producing Moral and Technical Order in a Time of Pandemonium,” a lecture by Dr. Joan Donovan | UC Berkley Social Science Matrix

It feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents, white supremacists, conspiracists, snake oil salesmen, political operatives, white academics, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers have in common? The groups have collided in a centrifuge of chaos online, where the tactics they use to hide their identities and manipulate audiences are […]

Global Platform Governance Network Meeting – February 2021 | Centre for International Governance Innovation

PARTICIPATION IN THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY. Governments face a continuing challenge in directly countering false information both online and off. Effective communication is a key tool in the government’s toolkit, and yet it remains a struggle for many countries. Governments have not historically been good story tellers, as official messaging focusses more on […]

CDCS Colloquium: (Side) Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy, COVID Edition | Annenberg School for Communication

Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue the gig economy will reverse economic inequality, enhance worker rights, provide an alternative to unemployment, and bring entrepreneurship to the masses. […]

Media Forum Online | Knight Lab

Presented by Knight Foundation, the forum is the premier gathering of foundation, media and civic leaders working to strengthen local news, communities and our democracy. Replicable ideas for more informed and engaged communities Interactive sessions All online

The long fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 election | Atlantic Council

Please join us on Wednesday March 3, 2021 from 3:00-4:30 pm EST (12:00-1:30 PST) for The Long Fuse: Misinformation in the 2020 Election, the public launch of a comprehensive report tracking mis- and disinformation in the 2020 election cycle. The report was produced by the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a coalition of research institutions that worked together to detect and mitigate viral misinformation and to support the real-time information exchange between the research community, election officials, government […]

Navigating the First Amendment & Misinformation | PEN America

Join PEN America for an engaging session on the First Amendment, misinformation, and free speech in the digital age. The January 6 insurrection has prompted many questions about free speech, the effect of online misinformation, and how society should approach defending against the harmful results of the proliferation of false content online without infringing upon […]

Misinformation as Motivated Reasoning: Experimental Evidence | Shorenstein Center

There are competing accounts for the partisan divisions occurring throughout American life.  One is that they are genuine divides due to a strengthened sense of partisan identity. The other is that they reflect partisan cheerleading—insincere support for the “home team” when there is little cost to doing so. We assess the applicability of these claims […]

The spread of conspiracy myths online: what are the implications for human rights? | Human Rights Group: Geneva

In her message for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet reminded us that ‘Words have consequences.’ Indeed she remarked that ‘conspiracy theorists increasingly link extreme political ideologies and antisemitic delusions,’ recalled the responsibilities of governments and digital platforms and stressed that we need to push back against lies, ensure that […]

Changes in U.S. and EU Cyber Policy: Cooperation, Convergence, or Competition? | The German Marshall Fund of the United States

The United States and European Union have each taken big steps forward on cybersecurity policy in recent months: Europe has a new cybersecurity strategy, and a defense bill passed by the U.S. Congress in December implements many recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. How do these new and emerging policies overlap? Where do they diverge? […]

Lee Huebner Book Talk | The George Washington University

Moderated by Professor Janet Steele, this SMPA discussion will look at the striking history of concerns about fake news, propaganda, and the fear of the mob in the US., as described in a new book by  Professor Lee Huebner: The Fake News Panic of a Century Ago: The Discovery of Propaganda and the Coercion of Consent. Just as the term “fake news” has […]