Past Events
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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
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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.
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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.
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Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Enrique Armijo
Wednesday, 1/18/2023, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
Dr. Armijo's project "Counter-lies"
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Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Madeline Jalbert
Thursday, 12/8/2022, 6:00pm - 11:59pm
Madeline Jalbert and Morgan Wack's project.
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Research Spotlight Webinar featuring Dr. Jennifer Forestal
Thursday, 12/1/2022, 6:00pm - 11:59pm
Dropping the Banhammer: Radicalization, Extremism, and Digital Publics
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Digital Citizenship In A Pandemic
Political Information And Action In 2020
Monday, 10/19/2020, 2:00pm - 11:59pm
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Panel Discussion
Thursday, 8/13/2020, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
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Panel Discussion
Thursday, 8/13/2020, 5:00pm - 11:59pm
IDDP's final Summer Spotlight Webinar, held on Thursday, August 13, 2020.
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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.
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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.
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Monday, 6/29/2020, 2:00pm - 11:59pm
IDDP’s second international forum on social media disinformation, held on June 29, 2020.
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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.
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Panel Discussion
Tuesday, 6/16/2020, 2:00pm - 11:59pm
International forum hosted by IDDP in cooperation with the International Grand Committee on Disinformation.
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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.
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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
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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
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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