Join us for a public conversation with Peter Pomerantsev, British-Ukrainian author, journalist, and one of the world's leading voices on propaganda and authoritarian disinformation. His books Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, This Is Not Propaganda, and How to Win an Information War:The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler have defined how a generation understands modern information warfare. A senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Pomerantsev has spent decades documenting how autocratic regimes weaponize media, narrative, and, now, artificial intelligence to destabilize democracies and erode the very idea of truth.
As AI reshapes the information landscape at breathtaking speed, this conversation asks the questions that matter most: How does AI-powered propaganda differ from what came before — and how do new technologies shape public reality? What happens to our collective capacity for critical thinking when personalized, algorithmically generated realities become the new normality? How can AI help us to protect ourselves from information manipulation? Who are the main actors in disinformation as a business, and what can the world learn from Ukraine, which has become an unexpected laboratory for countering disinformation under existential pressure?
In conversation with Halyna Padalko — disinformation researcher, Fulbright scholar at MIT Center for International Studies, and instructor of the MIT course AI and Propaganda.
Seats are limited — please make sure you are registered!
Sponsorship
This event is sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the MIT-Ukraine Program, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, in conjunction with the MIT course AI and Propaganda in Contemporary War taught by Dr. Elizabeth Wood and Dr. Halyna Padalko.
Accessibility
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact us at 617-495-4037 or daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance if possible. Please note that the Davis Center will make every effort to secure services but that services are subject to availability.
