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Film, Video Disinformation & the Threat to Democracy

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About this Item

Title

  • Disinformation & the Threat to Democracy

Summary

  • Anne Applebaum discussed the challenge facing democracies from disinformation campaigns and what might be done about it.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2018-05-09.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Classification: Technology.
  • -  Anne Applebaum.
  • -  Recorded on 2018-05-09.
  • -  Publishers.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also professor of practice at the London School of Economics's Institute of Global Affairs where she runs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda. Formerly a member of the Washington Post editorial board, she has also worked as foreign and deputy editor of the Spectator magazine in London, as political editor of the Evening Standard and as a columnist at Slate and at several British newspapers, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692375

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Disinformation & the Threat to Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-09, 2018. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692375/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2018) Disinformation & the Threat to Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-09. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692375/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Disinformation & the Threat to Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-09, 2018. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692375/>.