With democracies throughout the globe below assault, and because the world turns its consideration to Russia’s battle on Ukraine, the College of Chicago Institute of Politics and The Atlantic introduced immediately that they are going to collectively host Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy, a three-day convention exploring the organized unfold of disinformation and methods to reply to it.
President Barack Obama; Nobel Prize–successful journalist Maria Ressa; Christopher Krebs, a former Division of Homeland Safety director centered on cybersecurity; and journalists, together with Atlantic workers author Anne Applebaum, Ben Smith, and Kara Swisher of The New York Instances, will be part of world consultants and coverage makers April 6–8 in Chicago to debate the rising risk disinformation poses to democracies in a extremely polarized digital age.
The convention is free to attend, and in-person and digital registration is now open. Classes will likely be streamed stay for digital audiences. To request a press credential, please contact the press leads under.
Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy will discover the roots and scope of the issue, the threats posed by new technological advances, and the instruments and insurance policies required to neutralize them. Panels will even focus on the problem offered when the time period disinformation itself turns into fractious, and the strain between free expression and the necessity to fight wanton and willful disinformation.
“Disinformation and conspiracy theories, turbocharged and micro-targeted by the brand new instruments social media and massive information present, are a transparent and current hazard to democracies,” stated David Axelrod, director of the Institute of Politics. “They’ve turn into weapons with which to foment distrust in our establishments, sow division and even political violence. However combatting them is a fancy problem. We hope over these three days to not solely shine a lightweight on the issue but additionally potential options.”
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, says the journal’s partnership on this convention is a part of a significant dedication he and his journalists are making at a vital juncture in our historical past.
“Disinformation causes quite a lot of stress on in any other case functioning democracies, and The Atlantic’s preoccupation, for 165 years, has been the state of American democracy, and the state of the democratic thought worldwide. Our convention will deal with the weaponization of disinformation and the competing definitions of disinformation itself. We sit up for bringing collectively, with David Axelrod’s IOP, a top-tier group of consultants, coverage makers, journalists, and politicians to investigate this necessary phenomenon,” stated Goldberg.
The convention will likely be organized round a sequence of keynotes, panel discussions, and breakout classes. Amongst them:
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A dialog with President Barack Obama, moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic
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A dialog with Nobel Prize–successful journalist Maria Ressa, moderated by Adrienne LaFrance, government editor of The Atlantic
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What Occurs When We Can’t Inform What’s Actual, that includes Joan Donovan, analysis director of the Shorenstein Heart on Media, Politics and Public Coverage
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Defending Free Speech within the Cellular Web Age, that includes Mary McCord, Georgetown Legislation, and Geoffrey Stone, professor of regulation on the College of Chicago
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Imagining a Higher Social Media, that includes Ethan Zuckerman, professor on the College of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Focused by Lies: How Disinformation Spurs Political Violence, with Christopher Krebs, accomplice, Krebs Stamos Group; former director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA)
Please go to https://www.disinfo2022.com for extra info. A full agenda and record of audio system will likely be launched within the coming weeks.
In regards to the College of Chicago Institute of Politics
Created in 2013 by College of Chicago alumnus David Axelrod (AB’76), the nonpartisan Institute of Politics is dedicated to fostering in our college students a ardour for public service, significant dialogue and energetic engagement in our democracy.
About The Atlantic
Since 1857, The Atlantic has been {a magazine} of concepts—a house to one of the best writers and boldest minds, who convey readability and unique pondering to crucial problems with our time. Via our journalism, we goal to assist our readers higher perceive the world and its prospects, as they navigate the complexities of every day life. Report audiences and numbers of subscribers have turned to The Atlantic’s exacting protection of the pandemic, of threats to world democracy, and of a nationwide counting on race. Jeffrey Goldberg is The Atlantic’s editor in chief; Nick Thompson is the CEO. The Atlantic was named the 2021 Journal of the Yr by Adweek.
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