Defending Democracy from Disinformation

For those who are interested, please see the announcement from the League of Women Voters below:

The League of Women Voters of Baltimore City and County invite you to register now for our next session. Tuesday, September 29 at noon online. Our featured speaker, Bret Schafer, will address the topic,

Defending Democracy from Disinformation: How to Protect the Election from Information Manipulation

Our featured speaker, Bret Schafer, is the Media and Digital Disinformation Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy. As an expert in computational propaganda, he has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and he has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, CBS radio and BBC radio.

Previously, he spent more than ten years in the television and film industry, including stints at Cartoon Network and as a freelance writer for Warner Brothers. He also worked in Budapest as a radio host, in Berlin as a semi-professional baseball player, and in Moscow as an intern in the Public Affairs Section at the U.S. Embassy. He has a master’s in public diplomacy from the University of Southern California, where he was the editor-in-chief of Public Diplomacy Magazine, and a B.S. in communications with a major in radio/television/film from Northwestern University.

Registration is open now!

To join our event, please register here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details for joining on September 29th.

Please forward this invitation or the Registration Flyer to your friends, neighbors and family. This event is open to ALL.

Direct all questions to events@lwvbaltimorecounty.org