Strategies for Reducing Misinformation Uptake in a Polarized Context: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

The increasing use of misinformation and growing social and political polarization form a vicious circle: political entrepreneurs are incentivized to spread misinformation about the outgroup and citizens are increasingly motivated to engage with misinformation. In this study, we focus on one direction in this causal relationship: the preference among consumers to assimilate biased media. We do so in Côte d’Ivoire, a highly polarized context where misinformation is rampant and has even had violent consequences.

The Challenges to Representative Democracy: Populism, Technocracy and Political Pluralism

The talk presents theoretical and empirical research on the challenges to the core features of representative democracy as an attempt to combine the broad inclusion of citizens in the democratic process with efficiency of policy making and problem solving. It addresses the critique mounted by technocratic claims and highlights the tension between the holistic technocratic, and populist, conceptions of representation and pluralist representative democracy.

Insights from Bellingcat on Russia's Ukraine ambitions with Christo Grozev

Christo Grozev is lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website that specialises in fact-checking and open-source intelligence. He will offer insights from Bellingcat’s work during the Ukraine crisis. Christo’s work focuses on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponisation of information. His investigations into the identity of the suspects in the 2018 Novichok poisonings in the UK earned him and his team the European Prize for Investigative Journalism.
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