Lecture | November 16 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall | Canceled
Kate Starbird
Co-sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy
Pervasive misinformation â and its more nefarious cousin, disinformation â can be harmful to our ability to collectively respond to crisis events, to public health, and to democracy more broadly. In this talk, Iâll describe our work at the Center for an Informed Public which seeks to built collaborative tools and systems for ârapid responseâ to misleading content online (and beyond).
Iâll present some of the findings from our first deployment of the Election Integrity Partnership, which tracked hundreds of distinct âincidentsâ of false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims about election processes during the 2020 U.S. election. Iâll describe how these âparticipatory disinformationâ flows were leveraged for political mobilization that led to the events of January 6, 2021. And Iâll explain why my colleagues and I are returning to an old lens of ârumoringâ as we continue our rapid response work around the 2022 U.S. midterm election.
This lecture will also be live streamed via Zoom.
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510-642-1464
Catherine Cronquist Browning, catherine@ischool.berkeley.edu, 510-
