Webinar: How to Lose the Information War

Nina Jankowicz, Wilson Center, Washington DC.

Organised by AIIA National Office.

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. In this webinar she will outline the lessons she learnt from that fight, her attempts to get US congress to act, and provide insight to misinformation in the age of COVID-19.

Nina Jankowicz's book, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, will be available here from July 9. Registered attendees at the event will go in the draw to win a copy of the book!

Nina Jankowicz is a Washington DC-based writer and analyst with a focus on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She is currently Disinformation Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute. Previously, she served as a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellow, a role in which she provided strategic communications guidance to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy and others. Nina received her MA in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where she was a Title VIII and FLAS scholarship recipient, and her BA in Russian and Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated magna cum laude. She has lived and worked in Russia and Ukraine, and speaks fluent Russian and proficient Polish and Ukrainian. Nina was a 2017 Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow.

REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 9:40AM AEST ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT

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