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Boost your news IQ: Is it news, opinion or advertising?
Discover how to determine the credibility of a piece of information by identifying its purpose. You will learn how to spot key indicators that show a piece of content is news, opinion, advertising or even propaganda. We’ll answer the questions, “What makes news … news?” and “How can we tell the difference between all these…
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The Role of Big Money In U.S. Elections
Join this informative discussion with a group of campaign finance law experts from the nonpartisan, nonprofit Campaign Legal Center to learn how big money special interest spending—often from secret sources—is affecting our elections and the solutions. Topics will include the evolving and increasingly powerful role of super PACs and other ostensibly “independent” groups that influence…
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The Problem With Politics Isn’t What You Think It Is. And Neither Is the Solution
Learn what is at the root cause of our political dysfunction (an anti-competitive system) and the solutions. During this webinar, we will learn about: How the existing electoral systems deliberately contribute to gridlock and dysfunction. Why competition plays a crucial role in holding elected officials accountable for delivering results. How proposed solutions…
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Book Talk: Tyranny of the Minority with Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Join Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt for a partner-exclusive conversation about their new book “Tyranny of the Minority.” America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens…
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Assessing the impact of generative AI and other online threats in a historic election year
2024 will be a historic year for elections. Democracies comprising 41% of the world’s population and 42% of its GDP will cast their votes around the globe. Yet recent shifts in the information space threaten to turbocharge the spread of false content at the same time major social media platforms are scaling back investments in…
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Down the Rabbit Hole: How Social Media is Designed to Radicalize its Users
Social media platforms are designed to maximize users’ attention. In order to do so, they employ algorithms that send users down a rabbit hole that promotes the most inflammatory content, including mis/disinformation, hate speech, and extremist content. Online, people often find themselves pulled farther from the political center, and find it increasingly difficult to view…
