Resilienza digitale per i giornalisti in un anno di elezioni
Sat 20 April 2024
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2024 is the biggest election year in history. Starting with Taiwan in January and running through to the US presidential election in November, more than two billion people in 65+ countries will take part in decisive elections – including eight of the ten most populous countries in the world. For journalists, it will be a year where they must tackle the inevitable flood of disinformation that will infect social media and other media platforms. So how do we build resilience and immunity to the growing sophistication of disinformation, debunk it and find time to do the job of journalists and report the facts? Moderated by Catherine Mackie.
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Palazzo Murena (Perugia)
Il Palazzo Murena è un edificio storico di Perugia, in Umbria. Sito in piazza dell'Università, è sede dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia.
Catherine Mackie
Catherine Mackie is the Training and Communications Editor for Thomson Foundation. She is responsible for designing training programmes for Thomson’s e-learning platform Journalism Now, as well as for the Telegram messaging app, enabling journalists in the field to access clear, concise and constructive guidance in a ‘bite-size’, accessible way. The latest on disinformation includes a look at the psychology behind its power and pre-bunking. Catherine has more than 30 years of experience as a senior journalist most of it with the BBC – both in front of and behind the camera. She reported on every local and national election in the UK from 1990-2016. In 2018, she was awarded a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship by the University of Michigan.
Charlotte Maher
Charlotte Maher is the social media editor for Bellingcat. An investigative journalist and OSINT expert, she sits on Bellingcat’s editorial board overseeing all investigations. She recently wrote a guide for the public on how to be savvier online during misinformation surges. Her work also includes training journalists on using open source tools to help counter the spread of disinformation. In the past she has worked for the BBC and as an investigative reporter at the Bureau for Investigative Journalism. Charlotte holds a Master's degree in investigative journalism from the University of London.
John-Allan Namu
John-Allan Namu is an award-winning investigative journalist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Africa Uncensored, a media house based out of Nairobi, Kenya, which focuses on public interest investigative and in depth journalism. He has covered numerous elections including the 2022 Kenyan Election which was bombarded by false claims online. He himself has been the target of disinformation. He has interviewed high-level politicians and power brokers from across the region and investigated crimes committed at every level of African society. John-Allan has received numerous awards for his journalism including CNN African Journalist of the Year. He has twice been named joint winner of the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards in Kenya. In 2022, John-Allan was named the Human Rights Defender of the Year in Kenya by the Working Group on Human Rights Defenders and the Defenders Coalition.
Jon Roozenbeek
Jon Roozenbeek is the co-developer of a number of interventions designed to tackle mis and disinformation, including the award-winning ‘Bad News’ game. He works at the University of Cambridge Social-Decision Making Lab where he is the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Jon is an expert in understanding why people believe and share mis and disinformation and has studied Russian propaganda in Ukraine. Jon’s specialisms include the psychology of propaganda and manipulation, group polarisation, online extremism and inoculation theory. He has written two books: The Psychology of Misinformation (2024, Cambridge University Press with Professor Sander van der Linden) and Propaganda and Ideology in the Russian-Ukrainian War (2024, Cambridge University Press).