The Russia Attack: 2016 and the Future of Election Security

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IDEAL JHU launches its new Protecting Democracy Symposium with "The Russia Attack: 2016 and the Future of Election Security." This event features a panel of four esteemed experts, some of whom helped discover and prove Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

Speakers include:

• Scott Shane, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and fellow at the SNF Agora Institute who helped prove that Russian troll farms and bots impersonated American citizens on social media
• Robert Johnston, the former principal consultant for Crowdstrike who identified that Russia had hacked into the Democratic National Convention and current CEO of Adlumin, Inc.
• Peter Pomerantsev, a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute who has published two award-winning books on propaganda
• Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins who has worked with election security
• Adam Sheingate, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins, will moderate

Please register in advance to join via Zoom or join through Facebook Live.