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DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, September 30\, 2021\nTime: 11:30AM to 12:30 PM
  ET\nRSVP here.\nIn recent years\, social platforms in the U.S. have grown
  in importance as distributors of news and other information\, and this sh
 ift in how media are amplified has been accompanied by a rise in disinform
 ation. Researchers have long highlighted the essential role of free\, inde
 pendent\, and diverse media as a counterweight to mitigate disinformation.
 \nCDT released a report “Facts and their Discontents: A Research Agenda fo
 r Online Disinformation Race and Gender\,” which highlighted the relations
 hip between independent media and online dis and misinformation with respe
 ct to the widespread harms of disinformation on communities of color. This
  session continues that discussion with a distinguished panel of experts.
 \nPanelists: \n\nNora Benavidez\, Senior Counsel and Director\, Digital Ju
 stice and Civil Rights\, Free Press\nRachel Kuo\, Postdoctoral Research Fe
 llow at the Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life at the U
 niversity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\nMaria Rodriguez\, Assistant Profe
 ssor\, University of Buffalo School of Social Work\nSaiph Savage\, Assista
 nt Professor\, Northeastern University\, Khoury College of Computer Scienc
 es and Director of the Civic A.I. Lab\n\nModerator: DeVan Hankerson Madrig
 al\, Research Manager\, Center for Democracy &amp\; Technology\n&nbsp\;
DTSTART:20210930T153000Z
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LOCATION:Online
SUMMARY:Howard University: Independent Media as a Counterweight to Online D
 isinformation Targeted toward Communities of Color Online?
URL:https://cdt.org/event/howard-university-independent-media-as-a-counterw
 eight-to-online-disinformation-targeted-toward-communities-of-color-online
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