Join the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for an online discussion with Nina Jankowicz on her book, "How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict."

Since the start of the Trump era, and as coronavirus has become an "infodemic," the United States and the Western world have finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and attacks from malign actors. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? 

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. 

Speakers:

Nina Jankowicz, disinformation fellow, Science and Technology Innovation Program, Wilson Center

Asha Rangappa, senior lecturer, Yale University

Matthew Rojansky, director, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center