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Building Resilience to Disinformation, while at the Same Time Protecting Free Speech to Restore Trust in Each Other & protect our democracy.
About this event
The forces of division have long known that pitting us against each other is a potent way to mobilize us. The internet, social media, and easy connection through our mobile devices, are being leveraged to sow confusion, disruption, disinformation and polarization. Deception and manipulation of news and information pre-date the internet, but its acceleration, reach and scale are greater on the web. Mis/disinformation represents a threat to our society and democracy, undermines elections, fractures public trust and gets in the way of advancing solutions to our pressing issues.
How can communities build resilience to these threats and restore trust in each other to protect our democracy and engage our differences productively, while at the same time protecting free speech?
In this session, we’re joined by Jillian Youngblood and Todd Levinson of Civic Genius to explore examples of mis/disinformation, engage in interactive activities to help combat it and hear about a program designed to work within our communities to build civic resilience.
Civic Genius is a group dedicated to help overcome political polarization and rebuild American civic culture through everyday opportunities to learn and engage. Their tools, including videos, short briefs and dialogue-based experiences, help foster civic confidence through citizen empowerment.
The link to a zoom meeting room will be sent to registrants no later than one day before the session
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The League of Women Voters envisions a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate. The LWV Civil Discourse Network is a network of Leagues using civil discourse as a way to foster understanding across our differences, build trust within our democracy and advance solutions to the issues facing our communities and country.
The National Institute for Civil Discourse, was founded after the Tucson shooting at the civic event called "Congress on Your Corner" that killed six people and wounded thirteen others, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. NICD believes the American people will be our saving grace. In addition to inspiring and organizing everyday Americans to engage our differences productively through listening, conversation and action together, NICD encourages elected leaders to put country ahead of partisanship.