BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:12022@literaturseiten-muenchen.de DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251110T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251110T210000 DTSTAMP:20251028T142902Z URL:https://www.literaturseiten-muenchen.de/veranstaltungen/poisoned-polit ics-truth-lies-and-the-decline-of-discourse-and-democracy/ SUMMARY:Poisoned Politics: Truth\, Lies\, and the Decline of Discourse — and Democracy DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJoin us for an evening with acclaimed authors Renée DiResta\, a professor and social media researcher at Georgetown Uni versity\, and Andrew Marantz\, a staff writer at The New Yorker\, who wil l discuss the way online and offline worlds have collapsed\, leading to a new—and altogether darker and more confusing—age in both politics and society.\n\nTheir conversation\, moderated by Joshua Yaffa\, Marantz's col league at The New Yorker and Bard College Berlin's writer-in-residence\, will touch on how the ideas\, rhetoric\, memes\, and half-truths that spr out from online subcultures have\, in many ways\, come to determine the Am erican mainstream. The particular nature of social media and how it spread s both information and misinformation has come to hold a great power in de termining the relationship between citizens and their government\, and how that government in turn views its own role and power. In the context of t he second Trump Presidency\, these questions have become all the more rele vant\, and urgent. Both DiResta\, the author of Invisible Rulers: The Peo ple Who Turn Lies into Reality\, and Marantz\, author of Antisocial: Onli ne Extremists\, Techno-Utopians\, and the Hijacking of the American Conver sation\, have deep experience researching and reporting from within the co mmunities and personalities that have come to hold outsized sway in today' s politics and culture—from right-wing message boards to the so-called " mansophere" of male-oriented podcasters.\n\nThis evening will offer both a fact-based description and diagnosis of political discourse in the curren t moment\, as well as highlight possible scenarios for the future.\nAbout the Speakers\nRenée DiResta is associate research professor at the McCou rt School of Public Policy at Georgetown. She is the author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality\,  and also contributes to  The Atlantic and Lawfare. DiResta was previously the technical resear ch manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She was a Presidential Le adership Scholar and has been named an Emerson Fellow\, a Truman National Security Project fellow\, Mozilla Fellow in Media\, Misinformation\, and T rust\, a Harvard Berkman-Klein affiliate\, and a Council on Foreign Relati ons term member. She has advised Congress\, the White House\, state legisl atures\, and business organizations on issues related to technology and po licy\, including information operations\, generative AI\, election securit y\, researcher transparency\, child safety\, and more.\n\nAndrew Marantz  is a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where he has worked since 2011. He is the author of Antisocial: Online Extremists\, Techno-Utopians\, and th e Hijacking of the American Conversation\, which was published in 2019 and was named a best book of the year by the New York Times\, Publishers Wee kly\, and many other publications. His work has also appeared in Harper ’s\, New York\, Mother Jones\, the New York Times\, among other places.  A contributor to New Yorker Radio Hour\, he has spoken at TED and has been interviewed on CNN\, MSNBC\, NPR\, and many other outlets.\n\nJoshu a Yaffa is the inaugural Writer in Residence at Bard College Berlin. He i s a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Between Two Fires: Truth\, Ambition\, and Compromise in Putin's Russia\, which won th e Orwell Prize in 2021.\nAdmission\nAdmission is free. Please register via  https://eveeno.com/207905772.\n\nOr follow the livestream.\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Gespräch / Diskussion,Lesung LOCATION:Amerikahaus München\, Karolinenplatz 3\, München\, 80333\, Deuts chland GEO:48.144319;11.567752 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Karolinenplatz 3\, München \, 80333\, Deutschland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Amerikahaus München:geo :48.144319,11.567752 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR