There is a war happening, according to Renee DiResta. “We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an 'Information World War' in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure underpinning everyday life to sow discord and erode shared reality,” she argues. It is an ongoing battle, with individual skirmishes in far flung places like Estonia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and Myanmar as well as in the United States.
Understanding who the digital combatants and cyberwarriors are as well as the methods they employ is the business of people like Renee DiResta, Mozilla Fellow for Media, Misinformation and Trust. We are all coming to the conclusion that, “something is wrong on the internet.” The question now is, what to do about it? With new elections taking place in Europe and in other countries around the world this year and the upcoming 2020 US Presidential election, what is at stake for democracies that value free speech and eschew internet governance? DiResta will discuss the ways in which this information world war is playing out and make some policy recommendations for the future.
SPEAKER:
Renee DiRestaFellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, Mozilla
There is a war happening, according to Renee DiResta. “We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an 'Information World War' in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure underpinning everyday life to sow discord and erode shared reality,” she argues. It is an ongoing battle, with individual skirmishes in far flung places like Estonia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and Myanmar as well as in the United States.
Understanding who the digital combatants and cyberwarriors are as well as the methods they employ is the business of people like Renee DiResta, Mozilla Fellow for Media, Misinformation and Trust. We are all coming to the conclusion that, “something is wrong on the internet.” The question now is, what to do about it? With new elections taking place in Europe and in other countries around the world this year and the upcoming 2020 US Presidential election, what is at stake for democracies that value free speech and eschew internet governance? DiResta will discuss the ways in which this information world war is playing out and make some policy recommendations for the future.
SPEAKER:
Renee DiRestaFellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust, Mozilla
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