The afternoon session of a day-long symposium sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara is open to the public and the UCSB community. Panelists will give brief opening remarks and then respond to questions from one another and from the audience. This will be a more general discussion of whether there is any good news about fake news.
Panelists include:
* Yochai Benkler – Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
* Maggie Farley – Developer of Factitious, a browser based game testing users skill in detecting fake news. Adjunct Professor of Communication, American University, Washington DC.
* Eugene Kiely – Director, FactCheck.org, A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center, Philadelphia PA.
* Miriam Metzger – Professor of Communication and Information Technology, UC Santa Barbara.
Interested in attending? Please RSVP by Thursday, November 2 at https://goo.gl/forms/UYNHhUSMANASBkZM2.