How do we know what's true anymore?
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Description
4/9/18: ABOUT 100 SEATS STILL AVAILABE, YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME WITHOUT A TICKET :-)
Join us for an important event about assessing the credibility of information in our world.
Democracy requires well-informed voters to thrive. Yet truth and facts are under assault from misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and fake news. Do YOU know how to assess what’s true and accurate? Learn strategies, tips and tools to gauge the credibility of information from experts.
This event is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters Palo Alto and the Palo Alto PTA Council.
- Overview: Assessing information credibility in our world
- Samuel Woolley, Research Director of the Digital Intelligence (DigIntel) Lab, the Institute for the Future
- How we can respond to fake news as a community
- Sarah Oh, Visiting Scholar, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
- What's driving election propaganda and how we can detect manipulation
- Renee DiResta, Head of Policy, Data for Democracy
- A few methods for determining information credibility
- Daniel (Dan) M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist, Search Quality & User Happiness, Google
- Tips and Tricks from Facebook: How to be a Savvy News Consumer in a Digital World
- Tessa Lyons-Laing, Product Manager, Facebook
- Evaluating websites and social media posts with lateral reading and click restraint
- Sarah McGrew, Co-Director of Civic Online Reasoning Project, Stanford History Education Group
- Audience Q&A
Bring your small smart device to participate in any live examples; this is not required.
This event may be recorded and attendance constitutes consent to recording.
For additional information, please contact the organizer by email at: lisa_peschcke_koedt@hotmail.com. Also please see the LWVPA website at: http://lwvpaloalto.org/
NOTE: Parking for the event is not permitted at the Town & Country Shopping Center.
OTHER CO-SPONSORS: League of Women Voters of Cupertino/Sunnyvale; Los Altos-Mountain View; South San Mateo County, Southwest Santa Clara Valley; Palo Alto AAUW (American Association of University Women)
