Disrupting Disinformation

Tanya Parker (Unity and Action Magazine), Maurice Hayes (HV Neighborhood Transformation) and Miriam Larson (Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center) described a Media Justice-supported campaign against racialized disinformation, defining misinformation versus disinformation, tracing COINTELPRO's targeting of Black organizers, and contrasting the 2020 racial justice protests with the January 6 insurrection. Larson surveyed the IMC's community media outlets (WRFU 104.5, the Public i, performance space). Audience Q&A covered gun violence, youth journalism, and distinguishing disinformation from opinion. Spring 2021 series "The Digital Shaping and Misshaping of the World Today," held online. About 37 attended on Zoom.