Name
Infrastructure of Truth
Date & Time
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Julie Owono Sam Gregory Costanza Sciubba Caniglia Kate Ruane
Description

Disinformation interferes with the right to vote. If beliefs are founded in false or inaccurate information, people are unable to make electoral choices that truly reflect their values. That is why combatting disinformation and lifting up reliable information is crucial to election protection. What are the systems that foster trustworthy and reliable information? Wikipedia is one of them -  calling itself the ground truth of the Internet, and its information serves as the basis for many useful services. Newspapers and journalists have historically been another. But burdensome regulation, waning margins, and political turmoil are creating barriers to freedom of the press and online dissent.