"How can you have integrity of elections if you don’t have facts?" In this episode of Big Tech, Rappler founder Maria Ressa discusses how social media’s abdication of the gatekeeper role syncs with the dictator’s playbook, enabling the erosion of our democratic institutions.
A "great powers" proxy war is raging on between the United States and China, and engulfing the World Health Organization (WHO). Ilona Kickbusch explores the geopolitics that could reshape the WHO as we know it.
In 2018, a self-driving Uber car struck and killed a pedestrian. The company was cleared of criminal wrongdoing, but the human tasked with monitoring the system faces the prospect of manslaughter charges. As Madeleine Clare Elish writes, the outcome of this accident could be a harbinger of what lies ahead.
Technology could turbocharge the ages-old public health practice of contact tracing but not without risks. Following a discussion with Carly Kind, Taylor Owen urges caution about the "solutions" we adopt.
"A lie told a million times becomes a fact; that’s the reality of social media, and that's what authoritarian-style rulers around the world are taking advantage of," Maria Ressa said in a 2019 interview with CIGI. Read the full Q&A here.
Jun. 16 – 10:00 a.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): This online event — featuring opening remarks by United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova — will explore the false, misleading and dangerous social media content related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The forum is the first event in a series hosted by the George Washington University's Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics, and it will be streamed online.
Jun. 21 – 12:00 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): On National Indigenous Peoples Day, join us for a fire and feast offering led by Minogiizhigokwe/Kathy Absolon, Anishinaabe kwe storyteller and knowledge carrier. This event is hosted in partnership by Indigenous Initiatives at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), the Centre for Indigegogy, the Centre for Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at WLU, and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
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