Misinformation and Its Consequences for American Democracy
This one-day conference brings together prominent political researchers and practitioners to discuss the origins and consequences of misinformation, as well as strategies to reduce its prevalence and pernicious effects. The day features new research by leading scholars into why citizens come to be misinformed and which strategies to reduce or correct misinformation do and do not work; an address on the steps the United States has and has not been taking to fight disinformation; and a wide-ranging roundtable discussion of the problem of mis(dis)information in media and politics.