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UM Journalism Professor Lee Banville was in Helena on November 6, 2023, for a program on how to identify and debunk bad election information. He gave the presentation in-person at the Lewis & Clark Library and via Zoom.

"Whether it is on social media, your television or in your mailbox, Montanans are about to be deluged with claims and counterclaims about candidates for office and issues. I hope this talk and others the League is planning this coming year will help voters be able to be skeptical, but also open to new information," says Banville.

"This is about election readiness, about getting equipped to be informed but not paranoid, skeptical but not jaded."

During the talk, participants will learn how to respectfully contribute accurate information to a conversation -- whether on Twitter or at your Thanksgiving dinner table. "It is easy to often see misinformation as a problem of other people. They are sharing bad information and that is why we don't agree on a candidate or an issue. That is not what this is about. This talk and this effort are about having enough intellectual curiosity and humility to admit I may not know everything, and I can continue to learn new information."

This program was co-sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Library, 120 S. Last Chance Gulch.

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Webinar Recording: Productive Conversations without Confrontation - produced by the News Literacy Project, in partnership with the National Institute for Civil Discourse and the LWV Education Fund.