10:55-11:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
Rebecca Manning ’22BUS
Rebecca Manning ’22BUS
Chair and VP of the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Chair and VP of the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Dean Meisel ’22BUS
Dean Meisel ’22BUS
Panel Organizer for the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Panel Organizer for the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
11 AM-12 PM
Misinformation, Extremism, and Business
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In this panel discussion, speakers will cover the rise of misinformation, as well as the responsibility of social media and other online content companies in fighting misinformation and extremism. Hear from experts in this field about potential solutions to the misinformation problem, the evolution of misinformation through recent elections and the pandemic, and how the news and tech sectors can and have been working together.
Antony Cousins
Antony Cousins
CEO of Factmata
Antony Cousins is the CEO of Factmata, a UK-based startup using AI to counter misinformation. He previously was involved in countering Taliban propaganda and Al Qaeda recruitment in the UK. He has 21+ years of PR, media, and tech experience.
CEO of Factmata
Gordon Crovitz
Gordon Crovitz
Co-CEO of NewsGuard
Gordon Crovitz is the co-founder of NewsGuard, a tool that rates the credibility of news and information websites and tracks online misinformation. Before founding NewsGuard, he served as a publisher of the Wall Street Journal and an executive vice president of Dow Jones. His expertise includes, but is not limited to, the intersection of journalism, technology policy, and the age of information.
Co-CEO of NewsGuard
Anya Schiffrin
Anya Schiffrin
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation, and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south, and has published extensively over the last decade on the media in Africa. More recently she has become focused on solutions to the problem of online disinformation, earning her PhD on the topic from the University of Navarra. She is the editor of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Reporting from Around the World (New Press, 2014) and African Muckraking: 75 years of Investigative journalism from Africa (Jakana 2017). She is the editor of Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News (Columbia University Press 2021).
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
12:00–12:05 PM
Closing Remarks
Rebecca Manning ’22BUS
Rebecca Manning ’22BUS
Chair and VP of the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Chair and VP of the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Dean Meisel ’22BUS
Dean Meisel ’22BUS
Panel Organizer for the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Panel Organizer for the Social Enterprise Conference and MBA Candidate at Columbia Business School
Weekend Film Streaming
Film Screening of In Her Shoes Documentary
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In Her Shoes, a film by Cynthia Salzman Mondell, explores the narratives of women in prison through the shoes they wear, have worn, and will one day wear. The film features a series of interviews with women participating in an art program inside the Dallas County Jail, a women’s facility that cages approximately 700 people. In their interviews, women reflect on their experiences as survivors of gender and state violence. They consider how economic inequality, gender discrimination, and political disenfranchisement have shaped their lives.
In partnership with Media Projects, this film will be available to all registered conference attendees, free of charge, from November 19 to 21.
Cynthia Salzman Mondell
Cynthia Salzman Mondell
Director at Media Projects
Cynthia Salzman Mondell is an independent filmmaker who is committed to making films and videos that she feels have something to say about the world she lives in.
Her first documentary on housing and the lack of it, Promise and Practice, aired on public television in 1977. She then teamed up with her husband, Allen Mondell to form Media Projects. Together, they have created over 40 social-issue documentary films and educational videos.
In recent years, she has directed FUNNY WOMEN, a film celebrating women comedians, which is a permanent exhibition at the Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future in Dallas. Previous to that, THE LADIES ROOM, a documentary about the raucous and ribald world inside women’s restrooms.
Cynthia is past president of Women In Film – Dallas and past president of the Board of New Day Films, a nationally known independent film cooperative based in New York City. She was an artist in residence at University of Texas of Dallas, a member of the Texas Jewish Historical Society and the Dallas Producers Association.
Cynthia won a Gracie Award and was nominated for an Emmy for her work on a public service announcement for Meals on Wheels in conjunction with Women in Film – Dallas and in 2004, she was honored with the Women in Film’s Topaz Achievement Award.
Director at Media Projects