Past Events
How Science Lost America and How To Get it Back
Thursday, 3/23/2023, 4:00pm - 11:59pm
Science AAAS Journals and GW's Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, Bright Institute and Digital Trade & Data Governance Hub
Anthroencryption: Strategies for Protecting the World's Vulnerable People
Thursday, 2/23/2023, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Governments, humanitarian organizations and private contractors are capturing, storing and sharing an ever increasing volume of identity data.
Book Talk: Nina Hall in Conversation with Dave Karpf
Thursday, 2/16/2023, 4:00pm - 11:59pm
Dave Karpf and Nina Hall chatted about her recent book Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era.
Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Enrique Armijo
Wednesday, 1/18/2023, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Dr. Armijo's project "Counter-lies"
Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Madeline Jalbert
Thursday, 12/8/2022, 6:00pm - 11:59pm
Madeline Jalbert and Morgan Wack's project.
Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Jennifer Forestal
Thursday, 12/1/2022, 6:00pm - 11:59pm
Dropping the Banhammer: Radicalization, Extremism, and Digital Publics
Covering Elections Amidst Democratic Crisis
Monday, 10/3/2022, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Media for Democracy: Covering Elections Amidst Democratic Crisis on Monday, October 3, 2022
The Capitol Coup One Year Later
How Research Can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy
Thursday, 1/6/2022, 5:00pm - Friday, 1/7/2022, 11:59pm
The Capitol Coup One Year Later: How Research Can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy, a two day conference exploring key questions surrounding January 6.
Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Josephine Lukito
Tuesday, 9/28/2021, 7:00pm - 11:59pm
Understanding Social Movements as Targets of State-Sponsored Digital Disinformation
Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Kai Shu
Tuesday, 9/21/2021, 6:00pm - 11:59pm
Dr. Shu's work with IDDP aimed to understand disinformation with social context and propose a systematic computational framework.
Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Rachel Moran and Sarah Nguyễn
Tuesday, 9/14/2021, 7:00pm - 11:59pm
Understanding flows of misinformation and its real-life impact
Digital Surrogate Organizations and the Future of Liberal Democracy
Monday, 5/3/2021, 4:30pm - Tuesday, 5/4/2021, 11:59pm
The Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics and the Social Science Research Council’s Media & Democracy hosted The Conservative Dilemma
Tech Policy Webinar Series: AI Fairness & Transparency
Wednesday, 3/24/2021, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Facebook has created AI algorithms that perpetuate the spread of harmful content and is choosing to pursue only half measures to address the issue.
Tech Policy Webinar Series: Regulating Digital Platforms
Wednesday, 2/17/2021, 6:00pm - 11:59pm
This panel brought together leading experts on platform accountability measures from around the world.
Global Online Harms Webinar Series: Vaccine Hesitancy
Wednesday, 2/3/2021, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
It is crucial that public health experts develop effective strategies for communicating fact-based messages to combat anti-vaccine sentiment.
The Capitol Riots, QAnon, and the Internet
Technology as an enabler for extremism: What role did QAnon and the internet play in the US Capitol riot?
Thursday, 1/21/2021, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Digital Citizenship In A Pandemic
Political Information And Action In 2020
Monday, 10/19/2020, 2:00pm - 11:59pm
Panel Discussion
Thursday, 8/13/2020, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Panel Discussion
Thursday, 8/13/2020, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
IDDP's final Summer Spotlight Webinar, held on Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Rep. Speier, other female lawmakers ask Zuckerberg to "do more" to empower women
Thursday, 8/6/2020, 1:00pm - 11:59pm
The Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics hosted it's third and final International Forum on the Harms of Social Media Disinformation on August 6th, 2020.
Who Exactly Is You? Large-Scale Descriptive Analysis of Politics on YouTube
Panel Discussion
Friday, 7/24/2020, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
As the United States approaches the 2020 US elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic, more political communication than ever is taking shape on social media.
Monday, 6/29/2020, 2:00pm - 11:59pm
IDDP’s second international forum on social media disinformation, held on June 29, 2020.
Arbiters of Truth: Platform Content Policies and the U.S. Elections
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, 6/23/2020, 4:00pm - 11:59pm
As the United States speeds toward the 2020 election how are social media platforms addressing concerns about disinformation.
Panel Discussion
Tuesday, 6/16/2020, 2:00pm - 11:59pm
International forum hosted by IDDP in cooperation with the International Grand Committee on Disinformation.
The Future of Fact Checking: Research and Practice
Panel Discussion
Thursday, 6/11/2020, 4:00pm - 11:59pm
In an era in which political misinformation has become ubiquitous, fact-checking has emerged as one possible solution.
Is Russia Renting Your Aunt’s Facebook Profile?
BuzzFeed editor Craig Silverman warned that disinformation may take new and frightening forms as the 2020 presidential election approaches.
Monday, 2/24/2020, 8:00pm - 11:59pm
Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics Hosts Panel on Digital Discourse
Researchers and experts discussed how misinformation spreads and who benefits by it in final Colonials Weekend event.
Sunday, 9/22/2019, 4:00pm - 11:59pm
President Trump Shows ‘Aggressive Indifference’ to Russian Threat
James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, also called for social media regulation during a conference on disinformation and digital conflict at GW.
Monday, 4/2/2018, 12:00pm - 11:59pm