All the Conspiracies are True: Speaking Truth to Power in the Age of ‘Disinformation’
How should truth-seeking investigative journalism operate amid the proliferation of conspiracy theories on one side and the rise of a cadre of sometimes censorious “disinformation” experts on the other? Can the slur of conspiracy be used to intimidate and discourage genuine investigative reporting? How does one separate genuine leads from conspiracy fiction, when a few of those conspiracies might be true?
Chaired by James Harkin
James Harkin
James Harkin is the director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. He is a journalist who covers social change and political conflict and whose work appears in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, GQ, The Smithsonian, Prospect and the Guardian.
Mads Brugger
Mads Brugger is an experienced journalist, editor, non-fiction author and film director. Three times Sundance Film Festival nominee and winner of The Grand Jury Award at Sundance 2010 with feature length documentary The Red Chapel, he has also twice been selected for New Directors New Films at MOMA in New York.
Florence de Changy
Florence de Changy is a foreign correspondent, currently based in Hong Kong for Le Monde and RFI. She has been covering Asia-Pacific since the early 90s, from Sydney, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei.
- 15 November 2024 13.00–14.00 GMT
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Location: Frobisher Auditorium 1, The Barbican
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