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Joint Conference on Right-Wing Studies & Research on Male Supremacism Tickets | Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies & Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

Event Listing Header Register for the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies/Institute for Research on Male Supremacism virtual conference to join other researchers focused on the right-wing and male supremacism for three days of panels, networking events, training sessions, and keynote speakers August 4th-6th. View the full schedule here. An add-on digital security preconference training tailored […]

Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University

As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading content can diminish trust in the results of electoral contests, and in the integrity of democratic processes and leadership transitions overall. In the United States, over 10,000 individual jurisdictions are responsible for election administration and […]

Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic – A Special Livestream Event and Podcast with Dr. Anthony Fauci | The George Washington University

Join us this Wednesday, August 19th, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., for a special live edition of “Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic” with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Hosted by Frank Sesno, and brought to you in partnership by the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Milken Institute School […]

The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation During the Pandemic | Shorenstein Center

The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation during the Pandemic, the second workshop in the series, will feature a conversation with Dr. Joan Donovan, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center, Dr. Seema Yasmin, Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, Dr. René Najera, Editor of the History of Vaccines […]

Addressing Deepfakes in the U.S. 2020 Elections | Center for an Informed Public

In mid July, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), together with Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program, brought together leaders across different sectors for three days of roundtable discussions to discuss the impact of synthetic media and deepfakes on the upcoming 2020 U.S. elections. The convening brought together participants from technology, media, and […]

Election Disinformation: Using Media Literacy to Spot It and Stop It | PEN America

Join PEN America for a live and interactive media literacy training on Thursday, September 10 at 6:30pm ET to discuss best practices and defense strategies to combat election disinformation this fall. During this 90-minute training, participants will review the fundamentals of disinformation, how to better identify manipulated content, and will leave equipped with PEN America’s Media […]

MisinfoCon Webinar on Police Misinformation | MisinfoCon & MuckRock

Misinformation and disinformation originating from law enforcement sources, which has lately included Antifa raids, brick piles, poisoned milkshakes and more, has sparked considerable interest in the past few months. But journalists who cover the police say this is common — even the rule. When police in Buffalo, N.Y., pushed a 75-year-old man to the ground […]

Combatting COVID-19 misinformation with machine learning (VB Live) | VentureBeat

Misinformation around COVID-19 is driving human behavior across the world. Here in the information age, sensationalized clickbait headlines are crowding out actual fact-based content, and, as a result misinformation spreads virally. Conversations within small communities become the epicenter of false information, and that misinformation spreads as people talk, both online and off. As the number of […]