Event

Troll Factories, Lies & Propaganda

Graphic poster of event: Troll Factories, Lies and Propaganda, by the Nobel Peace Center.

In the age of disinformation, fake news is used to create distrust and affect people’s political opinions. How does it happen and how does it affect us?

Time: 10 Mar 2022 16:00 - 17:15
Place: Live on Facebook and the Nobel Peace Center

*The livestream from the event is unfortunately not available anymore.

Meet photographer Jonas Bendiksen, who traveled to the town Veles – a North Macedonian epicenter for fake news production - and made a photo book that was in itself a lie. Hear about his project the “Book of Veles” and join his conversation with Peter Pomerantsev, a journalist and writer who specializes in propaganda and media development.

Pomerantsev is author of “This is not Propaganda” and “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible” and will join on video link from the US, where he is working as a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. The event will be in English.

The event is a part of "Nobel Peace Talks" – the Nobel Peace Center's event-series about Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov's Nobel Peace Prize. The series is supported by Fritt Ord.

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