Oct
17
Thursday
The New War Against Reality: Trump, trolls and Putin's Russia
From Russian troll farms to Brexit to the 2016 US presidential election, information is the new 21st century battleground – one which can affect the outcome of elections and the stability of democratic institutions. But who is behind this weaponisation of information and what can we do to resist it? Join the Department of Journalism and Peter Pomerantsev for a discussion of his new book, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, with James Rodgers, former BBC Moscow correspondent and head of international journalism studies at City, University of London.