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The Spread of Online Disinformation

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Join us for the insights of media manipulation expert Dr. Joan Donovan (Cambridge, MA, USA) and investigative journalist Andras Petho (Budapest, Hungary) as they discuss the influx of fake news and propaganda online, its implications on a global scale, how to combat it, and where journalism is headed next.

The discussion will be moderated by senior reporter and producer for Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting (and WPI board member) Michael Montgomery.

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This webinar is partially supported by the America for Bulgaria Foundation.

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Apr 14, 2021 10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Apr 14, 2021 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Spread of Online Disinformation Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CWoZ_IhWSxCUeuKGgZ5Vsg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Dr. Joan Donovan Dr. Joan Donovan is the Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She leads the field in examining internet and technology studies, online extremism, media manipulation, and disinformation campaigns and her research and expertise has been showcased in a wide array of media outlets including NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and more. Dr. Donovan is the director of The Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC), which explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation, derail democracy, and disrupt society. Dr. Donovan received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Science Studies from the University of California San Diego, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, where she studied white supremacists’ use of DNA ancestry tests, social movements, and technology. Andras Petho Andras Petho is a co-founder and editor of Direkt36, an investigative journalism center based in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, he was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo. He also worked for the BBC World Service in London and was a visiting reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers. Petho has written extensively about political corruption and has taught journalism courses at Hungarian colleges. He is a World Press Institute fellowship alumnus (2008), and was also a Humphrey fellow at the University of Maryland in 2012/13 and a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019/20. Michael Montgomery (Moderator ) Michael Montgomery is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal at the Center for Investigative Reporting. After completing a Fulbright fellowship in Eastern Europe, Montgomery covered the fall of communism and wars in former Yugoslavia for The Daily Telegraph and Los Angeles Times. His investigations into human rights abuses in the Balkans led to the arrest and conviction of Serbian and Albanian paramilitaries and the creation of a new war crimes court in The Hague. As a reporter and producer, Montgomery has garnered national and international awards, an Overseas Press Club Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Peabody Award and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University gold and silver batons. He also serves as a World Press Institute board member.

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