How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

July 9, 2020, 1:00-2:00pm (RSVP requested)
Online

Join the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for an online talk with Nina Jankowicz, Asha Rangappa and Matthew Rojansky on what the West can do about the threat of online warfare and attacks from malign actors. 

Nina Jankowicz, the Disinformation Fellow at the Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation Program, lays out the path forward in "How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict." The book reports from the front lines of the information war in Central and Eastern Europe on five governments' responses to disinformation campaigns. It journeys into the campaigns the Russian and domestic operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself. 

Jankowicz will delve into the case studies in the book and the broader implications of disinformation for democracy in discussion with Asha Rangappa, senior lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former FBI counterintelligence agent. 

RSVP is requested; information can be found at this link.

Speakers:

Nina Jankowicz, disinformation Fellow, STIP; former George F. Kennan Fellow; former Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow, Department of State

Asha Rangappa, senior lecturer, Yale University; former FBI counterintelligence agent

Matthew Rojansky, director, Kennan Institute