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URL:https://www.yaleclub.de/events/invisible-rulers-the-people-who-turn-li
 es-into-reality/
SUMMARY:Poisoned Politics: Truth\, Lies\, and the Decline of Discourse—an
 d Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Poisoned Politics: Truth\, Lies\, and the Decline of Discourse
 —and Democracy\nJoin us for an evening with acclaimed authors Renée DiR
 esta\, a professor and social media researcher at Georgetown University\, 
 and Andrew Marantz\, a staff writer at The New Yorker\, who will discuss t
 he way the online and offline worlds have collapsed\, leading to a new—a
 nd altogether darker and more confusing—age in both politics and society
 .\nTheir conversation\, moderated by Joshua Yaffa\, Marantz's colleague at
  The New Yorker and Bard College Berlin's writer-in-residence\, will touch
  on how the ideas\, rhetoric\, memes\, and half-truths that sprout from on
 line subcultures have\, in many ways\, come to determine the American main
 stream. The particular nature of social media and how it spreads both info
 rmation and misinformation has come to hold a great power in determining t
 he relationship between citizens and their government\, and how that gover
 nment in turn views its own role and power. In the context of the second T
 rump Presidency\, these questions have become all the more relevant\, and 
 urgent.\nBoth DiResta\, the author of "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Tu
 rn Lies into Reality\," and Marantz\, author of "Antisocial: Online Extrem
 ists\, Techno-Utopians\, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation\,"
  have deep experience researching and reporting from within the communitie
 s and personalities that have come to hold outsized sway in today's politi
 cs and culture—from right-wing message boards to the so-called "mansophe
 re" of male-oriented podcasters.\nThis evening will offer both a fact-base
 d description and diagnosis of political discourse in the current moment\,
  as well as highlight possible scenarios for the future.\nRenée DiResta i
 s associate research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at G
 eorgetown. She is the author of "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lie
 s into Reality\,"  a contributing editor at Lawfare\, and also contribute
 s to The Atlantic. DiResta was previously the technical research manager a
 t the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was a Presidential Leadership Sch
 olar and has been named an Emerson Fellow\, a Truman National Security Pro
 ject fellow\, Mozilla Fellow in Media\, Misinformation\, and Trust\, a Har
 vard Berkman-Klein affiliate\, and a Council on Foreign Relations term mem
 ber. She has advised Congress\, the White House\, state legislatures\, and
  business organizations on issues related to technology and policy\, inclu
 ding information operations\, generative AI\, election security\, research
 er transparency\, child safety\, and more.\nAndrew Marantz is a staff writ
 er at The New Yorker\, where he has worked since 2011. He is the author of
  "Antisocial: Online Extremists\, Techno-Utopians\, and the Hijacking of t
 he American Conversation\," which was published in 2019 and was named a be
 st book of the year by the New York Times\, Publishers Weekly\, and many o
 ther publications. His work has also appeared in Harper’s\, New York\, M
 other Jones\, the New York Times\, among other places. A contributor to Th
 e New Yorker Radio Hour\, he has spoken at TED and has been interviewed on
  CNN\, MSNBC\, NPR\, and many other outlets.\n\nJoshua Yaffa is the inaugu
 ral Writer in Residence at Bard College Berlin. He is a contributing write
 r at The New Yorker and the author of "Between Two Fires: Truth\, Ambition
 \, and Compromise in Putin's Russia\," which won the Orwell Prize in 2021.
 \n\nAdmission is free. Please register via https://eveeno.com/207905772\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n​This event will be available online if you cannot be with us
  in person. Link → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXlbGzhzgyQ\nIf you w
 ould like to join the dinner reception at Amerikahaus following the talk\,
  please register here: https://eveeno.com/302921720. Space is limited to 6
 0 people.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Munich,Munich Dialogues on Democracy,virtual
LOCATION:Amerikahaus Munich\, Karolinenplatz 3\, Munich\, 80333\, Germany
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