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The Big Lie 2.0: Disinformation in the 2022 Elections Series
At The Epicenter: Electoral Propaganda in Targeted Communities of Color
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Tuesday, November 9th at 1:30PM EDT / 10:30AM PDT
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The 2020 presidential election and its aftermath highlighted our democracy’s ongoing vulnerability to disinformation. While prospective voters of all kinds have been exposed to false and deliberately misleading information in recent elections, communities of color—particularly those in battleground states—have been uniquely targeted with disinformation by anti-democratic actors in efforts to influence their voting behavior. There is no indication that these problems will abate during the 2022 election cycle.
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To address the propaganda targeting these communities during the 2022 election cycle, we first need to understand the nature of the threat. Join Protect Democracy on November 9th at 1:30PM EDT / 10:30AM PDT for a conversation with Samuel Woolley, Director of the Propaganda Research Lab and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and Esosa Osa, Research and Policy Director at Fair Fight Action, about election disinformation targeting communities of color in the United States. This event is open to the public and on-the-record. We invite participants to raise questions during the event or to submit them beforehand through the Zoom registration.
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Samuel Woolley
Propaganda Research Lab Director and Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Austin
@samuelwoolley
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Esosa Osa
Research and Policy Director
Fair Fight Action
@esosa_osa
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Moderator
Rachel Goodman, Counsel, Protect Democracy
Rachel Goodman currently leads Protect Democracy’s efforts to combat anti-democratic disinformation through litigation and other forms of advocacy. While at Protect Democracy, she has also worked to combat the use of insecure voting technologies and litigated Protect Democracy’s challenge to Wisconsin’s plan to administer the 2020 pandemic election. Previously, at the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, Rachel litigated housing discrimination cases and led successful efforts to force Facebook to disallow racial discrimination in its advertising services. She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Fellow.
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This is the first event in Protect Democracy’s series, The Big Lie 2.0: Disinformation in the 2022 Elections, which invites leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the effect of disinformation on recent U.S. elections and how to mitigate its influence on the 2022 election cycle. Please stay tuned for additional events in this series.
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