Craig Silverman is an award-winning journalist and author and one of the world’s leading experts on online disinformation and digital investigations. He is the cofounder of Indicator, a newsletter and website dedicated to exposing digital deception and to equipping professionals with knowledge and skills to help them investigate it. Prior to Indicator, he was a national reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Craig previously served as media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation and media manipulation. Craig is also the editor of the European Journalism Centre’s Verification Handbook series. These free online books offer world-class guidance on how to verify online content and investigate disinformation and media manipulation.

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Online Disinformation and Digital Deception
The business and information environment is more vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation than ever before. The digital devices and services that connect us have allowed overseas scammers, AI slop merchants, deepfake impersonators, disinformation peddlers, and ad fraudsters to steal money and capture attention. This session reveals how they’re doing it and how digital investigators are fighting back.