Maintaining Trust in Democracy in the Era of Facebook and Fake News
Damian Collins unfortunately cannot attend due to the General Election on 12 December. But we have an exciting and expert panel to discuss this important and timely topic: “Maintaining Trust in Democracy in the Era of Facebook and Fake News”. Carole Cadwalladr, the investigative journalist for the Observer who won the Orwell Prize for her work exposing Cambridge Analytica; Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King’s College London; Professor Philip Howard, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor Nick Anstead, Mansfield alum and LSE.
Damian Collins, MP for Folkstone & Hyde, as Chair of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons, led it prominent enquiry into fake news.
Date: 15 November 2019, 17:30
Venue: Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium
Speaker: Damian Collins, MP
Organising department: Mansfield College
Organiser: Jane Buswell (Mansfield College)
Organiser contact email address: jane.buswell@mansfield.ox.ac.uk
Host: Helen Mountfield, QC (Mansfield College)
Part of: Mansfield Lecture Series Michaelmas Term 2019
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/
Audience: Public
Editor: Jane Buswell