MEP Marietje Schaake is organising a seminar on ‘Protecting European Democratic in a post-truth society” on Wednesday, 6 September 2017 between 15:00 and 18.00 in the European Parliament, Brussels (Joszef Antall building JAN 4Q1).

Please register at alde.eu/events to attend this hearing.

DETAILED PROGRAMME

1^st Panel: Fake news – general overview

15:00                     Marietje Schaake MEP, Moderator

15:10                     Professor Philip N. Howard, Oxford University Computational Propaganda Project

15:20                     David Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Protection of Freedom of Speech

15:30                     Q&A

2nd Panel: Fake news and real actors behind

16:00                     Petras Auštrevičius MEP, Moderator

16:05                     Boris Reitschuster, Author and Journalist

16:20                     Rikard Jozwiak, RFE Brussels reporter

16:35                     Q&A

3rd Panel: On-line powers and approaches to mitigating the effects of misinformation

17:00                     Morten Løkkegaard MEP, Moderator

17:10                     Professor Vincent F. Hendricks, University of Copenhagen

17:25                     Prabhat Agarwal, DG Connect, European Commission

17:40                     Q&A

18:00                     Closing remarks