​Join this cross-disciplinary panel of legal scholars, media experts, and political scientists to consider the most pressing questions about disinformation in democratic politics today. Panelists will briefly discuss key findings from their own research before addressing questions about both the threat of disinformation and new forms of media, as well as potential opportunities that our contemporary media-scape may afford us.

Panelists:
Brendan Nyhan, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Department of Communication, UC Davis
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Kate Klonick, St. John's University School of Law
https://www.stjohns.edu/law/faculty/k...

Yunkang Yang, Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, George Washington University
https://iddp.gwu.edu/yunkang-yang

Shannon McGregor, Hussman School of Journalism and Media, UNC, Chapel Hill
http://hussman.unc.edu/directory/facu...

Host:
Robert Blair, Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
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Moderators:
Marisa Smith, School of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Elizabeth Sperber, Department of Political Science, University of Denver
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This event is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Democratic Erosion Consortium and the University of Denver.