Sasha Issenberg at Town Hall Seattle

Monday, March 25, 2024
7:30pm — 7:30pm PT
Seattle Town Hall

How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?

A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called “Moneyball for politics,” journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era’s most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies.

The Lie Detectives presents a vivid snapshot of a political class trying to come to terms with an exploding social media landscape and using every weapon in its arsenal to counter the biggest threat it has ever faced to its way of doing business and winning power.

 

Sasha Issenberg will be in conversation with Austin Jenkins, host of TVW’s Inside Olympia.

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Sasha Issenberg is a journalist and the author of four previous books, including The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns and, most recently, The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. He teaches in the UCLA Department of Political Science and is a correspondent for Monocle. His work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek and Politico Magazine.

Austin Jenkins covers infrastructure and the disruption industry for Pluribus News. Austin has spent nearly two decades covering the Washington State legislature for the Northwest News Network, a regional consortium of NPR stations. He is also the host of the Emmy® nominated weekly news program Inside Olympia, providing an in-depth look at the work taking place in and around Washington state’s Capitol.

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