Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 30 webinar, part of a series on future of democracy, to discuss 'flattening the curve' of pandemic misinformation

Vision, a new weekly webinar series from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, explores the "trends, ideas and disruptions affecting the future of our democracy." 

This Thursday, April 30, at 1 p.m. ET, Dr. Joan Donovan will discuss disinformation about the covid-19 pandemic. Donovan is the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center, and is an authority on internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns. Click here to register.

Donovan wrote in a recent thinkpiece for Nature: "The pandemic lays bare how tech companies’ reluctance to act recursively worsens our world. In times of uncertainty, the vicious cycle is more potent than ever. Scientific debates that are typically confined to a small community of experts become fodder for mountebanks of all kinds."

Click here for a recording of last week's webinar and information on upcoming episodes.

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