About the Lecture: Online disinformation campaigns are the newest frontier of international conflict. What do we know about the tools being used by Russia both domestically and abroad? What is the strategic logic of their deployment and what are the goals of the Putin regime?
About the Speaker: Steven Lloyd Wilson (UW PhD Political Science) is an associate professor of politics at Brandeis University, project manager for the V-Dem Institute, and co-PI of the Digital Society Project. His research focuses on comparative democratization, cyber-security, and the effect of the Internet and social media on authoritarian regimes, particularly in the post-Soviet world.
Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Colloquium.
Please join us at 3:45 for coffee, tea, and cookies.