The Schedule

For live-streamed sessions, please register through the Zoom link.

Day 1, May 12:

9 AM - 10 AM: Registration and Breakfast

10 AM - 10:30 AM: Introduction and Housekeeping

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Lightning Talks (Livestreamed)

Why do Indians share a lot of health misinformation?
Sudipto Sengupta - CEO, The Healthy Indian Project
How Numbers in the Media Can Mislead: Exploring Data-Related Misinformation

Akhil Reddy - Product Manager, Factly

Ritash - Associate Director, Solidarity Foundation

Duha - Intersex Asia research fellow, IHRI co-founder & co-ordinator

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Design Thinking Sessions: Needs gathering across domains

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Workshop Sessions

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM: Break

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM: Academic Research in Action (Virtual presentations, Livestreamed)

Heavy Tweeters and the Loud Television Hosts: A Tale of Alienated Protesting Farmers of India
Vihang Jumle- Co-lead, Social Media and Disinformation Lab
The Effect of Social Media on Voters: Experimental Evidence from Political WhatsApp Groups

Kevin Carney - Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Michigan

Privacy Preserving Data Collection Infrastructures for WhatsApp
Kiran Garimella - Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information, University of Rutgers
Empowering diaspora communities to counter misinformation
Scott Hale - Director of Research at Meedan and Associate Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute
Deepfakes and the Practice of Journalism
Andrea Hickerson - Dean and Professor in the School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi

7:00 PM: Reception

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Breakfast

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Lightning Talks (Livestreamed)

Policy Responses to Misinformation and Disinformation
Prateek Waghre - Policy Director, Internet Freedom Foundation
Indian Government and Fact Checking
Aditi Agrawal - Independent Technology Journalist

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Break

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM: Lightning Talks (Livestreamed)

Main Kaun Hoon? Kahan Hoon?
Identifying Oneself in the Misinformation Landscape
Tejas AP (all pronouns), Independent Artist
Indian Civilisation is 10 billion years old and other bullshit comments I've read online
Keshav Rajendran - Filmmaker and Partner of Production House, 1G4T
Games Against Misinformation

Adhiraj Singh - Viral Spiral (Tattle), The Games We Play Online

Karen D'Mello - Director of KathaSiyah Collective, Creating ‘Trust Me. It’s a Forward!’: Combating misinformation with play and care

Abhilash Mallick - Associate Editor (Fact-check), the Quint, Verify Kiya Kya

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshop Sessions

Unpacking gendered disinformation: Examining real-life cases and potential solutions
Pooja Pande - Co-CEO Chambal Media
Kritika Goel - Head of Fact-Checking, India, Logically Facts
Adrija Bose - Senior Editor, BOOM Live
Sneha Alexander - Program Manager APAC, Meedan
Regulating Misinformation In India

Preeksha Malhotra and Haseeba Sayyed, Independent Media Regulation Researchers

Game Room: Viral Spiral
Viral Spiral lets players experience the temptation to share fake news. They earn clout as they go viral and get to experience how biases can be manipulated for personal gain. Forcing players to face the consequences of the harm it causes, the universe adapts to the decisions the players make
Game Room: Trust Me, it's a Forward!
Trust Me, it's a Forward turns the disembodied nature of digital messages into an interactive game experience that relies on players’ ability to segregate fact from fiction. The game simulates behaviour that results from our interactions with information manufactured by large data systems that wield the power and resources to bend facts and public opinion