Event Lectures and Symposia Words at War: Misinformation Then and Now with Annalee Newitz and Peter Pomerantsev
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 24, 2024
2:50 pm - 3:50 pm EDT
This event will be livestreamed on c-span.org External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - East Salon ABC (Street Level, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival
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We know that disinformation is dangerous but did you also know it’s a weapon of war? Annalee Newitz (“Stories Are Weapons”) and Peter Pomerantsev (“How to Win an Information War”) discuss the ways tools like psychological operations and coercive storytelling that were once deployed against foreign adversaries affect our current geopolitical climate and shape our present-day culture wars. Moderated by Roswell Encina.