The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
It is a tremendous honor to introduce our guest tonight, senator mitt romney. Growing up in utah, i can see from002 olympic ski jumps my backyard. Senator romney helped save those olympics and forever transformed my home state. From running for president turnout representing the state of utah in the senate he has exhibited the best of American Leadership in private and public sectors, getting results well detaining the utmost character and integrity. Thank you for being here to share your perspective with us tonight. Tonights event is cosponsored by the College Republicans and the Bipartisan Coalition. I will now handed over to our moderator for the evening, the geopolitics executive director. Matt, thank you for your generous introduction, and for your continued participation, not just at the institute, but your leadership at the mcchord school. I want to thank the georgetown andege republicans Bipartisan Coalition for joining us and putting on this event. I want to thank all of you w
Senate it is my honor to welcome you here. We are going to have a conversation about the intersection of Early American History and contemporary political issues. If this is your first visit to the institute, i want to welcome you to our fullscale replica of the United States senate chamber. We arekennedy institute, committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. Partnerery proud to with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud together together a group of panelists for the Program Including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics in Higher Education at sincehere he has been 1988. Serving as a trusted source of tru
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