Russia's Disinformation Campaign Against the U.S. and Its Citizens

Event Date: 8th February 2022
Location: Internet 21:00 - 22:15 GMT

  
FEATURED | PERRY WORLD HOUSE EVENTS The World Today presents: Russia’s Disinformation Campaign Against the U.S. and Its Citizens Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:00pm-5:15pm | Virtual Event In recent decades, the Russian Federation has started to pursue sophisticated social media disinformation campaigns, aiming to weaken social cohesion and exacerbate political tensions around the world.  From spreading propaganda in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, to perpetuating falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines, this kind of manipulation has become a prominent tool of the Russian establishment.

How can democratic countries counter these campaigns? How do we learn to spot disinformation? And could this online antagonism spill over into real-life conflict?

Join Perry World House and Penn’s Russian and East European Studies Department for a conversation about these critical questions with Russian political dissident and entrepreneur Konstantin Borovoi and Penn’s Mitchell A. Orenstein. Read more