Training: Election Disinfo Defense

From Deepfakes to Fake News: Defense Against Election Disinformation

Tuesday, October 22nd, 8:00pm ET

Join Women's March Digital Defenders for a critical training ahead of the elections.
 

Disinformation is spreading fast as the election approaches. On October 22 at 8 PM ET, join experts Dr. Heather Woods and Dr. Leslie Hahner for a 60-minute Zoom session where you'll learn how to spot and combat AI-generated disinformation, election-related falsehoods, and understand how the algorithms are amplifying some of this content -- and how you can avoid feeding into it.

Register now to equip yourself with real-world tools to protect your community from the flood of misinformation and manipulation.

  • Leslie A. Hahner is a scholar trained to interrogate how visual communication shapes audiences. She is the award-winning author of two books  and dozens of articles on visual strategy. You can find her public-facing work in the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Atlantic, BBC World News, and more.

  • Heather Suzanne Woods is an award-winning higher ed leader, emerging tech strategist, and scholar. Dr. Woods’ research on emerging tech provides crucial and actionable insight for scholars, industry, non-profits, and advocacy organizations. She empowers communities to build resilient, adaptive, inclusive processes and structures in preparation for a changing technological future. Heather’s work has been featured in WIREDThe New York Times, AtlanticCBC’s Spark, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and more.