Webinar

Virtual Roundtable: State-Sponsored Disinformation

Thursday, May 5, 2022
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Speakers
Graham Brookie

Senior Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council

Steven Lloyd Wilson

Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University

Presider

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Russia has made a concerted effort to discredit Western vaccines, while simultaneously promoting its own Sputnik V vaccine by paying influencers and creating misleading articles. China has also amplified disinformation aimed at sowing doubts about Western coronavirus vaccines and other countries’ response to the virus. These digital threats have real-world implications. The barrage of COVID-related disinformation has eroded trust in public health officials and vaccinations, and dramatically curtailed our ability to respond to both current and future pandemics. Steven Wilson, Assistant Professor of Politics, Brandeis University and Graham Brookie, Senior Director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab, Atlantic Council discuss how the United States improve its information security and combat malicious state-sponsored narratives in a roundtable discussion moderated by Jennifer Nuzzo.

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