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SUMMARY:What could possibly be wrong with checking the facts?
DESCRIPTION:These online panel discussions will take place at 4pm on a Wednesday once a month\, but the topics are decided according to world events and are announced at the previous month’s event. Recordings are available on YouTube via the Global Georgetown channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalGeorgetown/videos. \nFact-checking\, once seen as a noble and common-sense endeavour to reduce errors and misunderstandings\, has become increasingly contentious. Some autocrats have denounced it as a biased practice\, as well as a violation of free speech that censors dissenting opinions. Amid concerns around misinformation and disinformation\, a relentless news cycle on social media has made fact-checking an onerous process. As companies like Meta have announced they had stopped fact-checking\, ostensibly to preserve free expression\, questions loom about when inaccurate content should be removed from public sources. Is correcting false information a form of censorship? Can fact-checking endure in today’s climate of polarizing politics? How can the West restore this practice as a credible tool for safeguarding a free press\, and counter efforts to discredit it as biased or one-sided? Experts will discuss. \nThis discussion is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University) and the Future of the Humanities Project (Georgetown University\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, Oxford)\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. \nOnline. Free and open to all. Registration is required. \nAled Eirug is a journalist and former head of news and current affairs for BBC Wales. He ran the largest newsroom in the UK outside network news\, and has 25 years of experience with that public network and Independent Television News. In recent years\, Eirug has served on the content board of Ofcom\, the regulatory body for broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He is currently an honorary research fellow at Cardiff University. \nLisa Fazio\, an associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University\, studies how people learn new information\, both true and false\, and how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. This includes how to mitigate the effects of reading false information and how to increase classroom learning. Her research informs basic theories about learning and memory\, while also having clear applications for practitioners\, such as journalists and teachers. \nLauren Gibbons covers state politics and policy for Bridge Michigan. She previously worked at MLive\, where she led coverage of the state legislature and the redistricting process\, and before that covered the state Senate for MIRS News. She has covered the ins and outs of Michigan politics for nearly a decade and has won awards\, both for her political coverage and her work documenting the sexual abuse case involving Larry Nassar\, the former the doctor of the U.S. women’s national gymnastics team. \nCarlos Hernández-Echevarría is the assistant director at Maldita.es\, a Madrid-based nonprofit dedicated to combating disinformation and promoting information integrity. A seasoned journalist and media executive\, he spent 15 years in television\, primarily at laSexta. He is a former chair of the association of European fact-checking organizations EFCSN and a professor of International Journalism at Universidad Carlos III. \nMartin Williams directs Radar Public Relations in North Wales. He has more than 25 years experience in media and public relations\, working at several newspapers\, including the North Wales Weekly News\, Visitor\, and Daily Post. He previously was the head of communications at Wrexham University. His work has been published in The Daily Telegraph\, The New York Post\, The Sun\, and The Mirror\, among several others. \nMichael Scott (moderator)\, senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in American education\, government\, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/what-could-possibly-be-wrong-with-checking-the-facts/
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SUMMARY:The European challenge: defending human rights in the digital age
DESCRIPTION:This online workshop\, in collaboration with the Thomas More Centre for International Relations at CEU Fernando III\, will cover a wide range of topics from disinformation to Gaza. Richard Finn O.P. and Carlos Espaliú will co-chair. \nAll are welcome\, registration is required. \nSpeakers and Topics\nCarlos Espaliú\, CEU Fernando III: ‘Saint George and the new dragon: the fight of the European Union against disinformation sponsored by States’. \nClaes Granmar\, Stockholm: ‘Protection of Fundamental Rights through External Trade Relations’. \nSonia Boulos\, Nebrija: ‘The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Legal Consequences for the EU’. \nFelix Martín Moreno\, Lancaster: ‘Reframing Human Rights from a Psychological Needs Perspective’\, \nCarlos Fernández Liesa\, Carlos III de Madrid: ‘Sustainability and human rights in the EU’. \nSusana Sanz Caballero\, CEU Cardenal Herrera: ‘The fragility of human rights in times of rule of law erosion’.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-european-challenge-defending-human-rights-in-the-digital-age/
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