Battleground 2020: Surveying the Disinformation and Disruption Threats to the 2020 U.S. Election

Name: Battleground 2020: Surveying the Disinformation and Disruption Threats to the 2020 U.S. Election
Start: 2020-05-12T12:45:00-0400
End: 2020-05-12T14:00:00-0400

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The Intelligence Project will host a webinar with the Honorable Mike Rogers, Belfer Center Senior Fellow and Former Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and David E. Sanger, Belfer Center Senior Fellow, adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School and national security correspondent and senior writer at The New York Times, on Tuesday May 13th from 12:45-2:00pm via zoom.

This session will be recorded and on the record. Priority registration will be given to Harvard students, staff, faculty, fellows, and affiliates. Please register below for access to the zoom link.

Date: Tue, May 12, 2020 Time: 12:45pm - 02:00pm

Please join the Intelligence Project for a webinar with the Honorable Mike Rogers, Belfer Center Senior Fellow and Former Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and David E. Sanger, Belfer Center Senior Fellow, adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School and national security correspondent and a senior writer at The New York Times.

In this session, we will look ahead to the 2020 U.S. election cycle and discuss what we can expect in terms of state-sponsored disinformation and disruption. Questions we will cover include:

Do we expect similar efforts to disrupt the 2020 election cycle as we saw in 2016? From which actors? Has China become a disinformation player? Iran? Do we see any signs of changes in Russian behavior
Do non-state actors pose a more serious disinformation threat in this election?
Have we improved our capability to detect and deter electoral disruption?
How do we measure the real impact of foreign disinformation?

We will also hear from the Belfer Center’s Defending Digital Democracy Project about what their team has been seeing in this arena, and how different states and localities are perceiving and preparing for the inevitable attacks on our election system.