The George Washington institute for data, democracy and politics is hosting this forum. Live coverage on cspan2. Today we tackle another grade disinformation harm, election disinformation. We will have two very important panels. Offers will focus on foreign interference. The second panel will zero in on democratic integrity and Voter Suppression. These are vitally important themes. They are both areas of urgent and serious challenge threatening civil discourse and our democracy itself. We have to understand them, find ways to stop them, all apple for by social media. In between our panel will hear from stacey abrams, founder of fair fight 2020 and will describe the realities she is experienced and she is trying to confront. Were hosting is a series of forms impala with workshops hosted by the center for International Governance innovation on disinformation come online governments exploit domestic and International Governance. Our series is held in cooperation with members of the Intern
Who has been here throughout. And, ali, what an escalation we have seen play out over the last couple of hours, and even the last couple of minutes. Whats going on where you are, ali . Chris, we were walking with a group that had been assembled in front of the 5th precinct. They started marching as soon as the the curfew was imposed. And entirely 100 peaceful march. We walked several miles with them. We were toward the back of the group. We werent in the front of the group. And, suddenly, in an intersection in front of us, with about twothirds of the group in front of us, and about a third including us behind, state police and a number of cars, supported by National Guard, moved into the intersection, got out, and began firing, entirely unprovoked, at the group. They started firing teargas and projectiles. I took i took one of them to my leg. What appeared to be a rubber bullet. But it it they were shooting at people. They were shooting teargas out there. The crowd has now gone the oth