Dear Friends and Colleagues, I’m very excited to share with you that I’ve been invited to speak at the European Parliament tomorrow about the threat of targeted advertising for driving disinformation in elections. The event will include a film screening and panel discussing: How can political advertising change voting behaviour and steer the public debate? The panel includes: - Peter Kreysler, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. - Dr. Emma Briant, Fellow at Bard College and researcher of contemporary propaganda, surveillance and information warfare who was involved in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal - Zoé Fourel, Researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. - Fernando Hortal Foronda, Digital Policy Officer at the European Partnership for Democracy. It's unfortunately not being streamed, but the speakers and a debate follow the screening of the documentary “Election campaign undercover” by Gesine Enwaldt and Peter Kreysler, 2021 which I highly recommend you watching as Peter managed to gain explosive undercover access to former Cambridge Analytica and Brexit campaign firms still operating unethically today worldwide (it’s German but there is translation): “Election campaign undercover <https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C5C58DfI4kI>” - it would be great to play for students in class... The main audience for the panel will be policy-makers, all relevant MEPs and the Council of the EU's representatives working on the file "Proposal for a regulation for the transparency and targeting of political advertisement". You can look at the draft proposal I’ll be commenting on here <https://emma-briant.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7f9f1379bf0f0311ebba75d7&id=da8d263831&e=ba76ce6920> . I will be pressing for a ban on targeted advertising, proper regulation of influence firms and making it clear how inadequate these proposals are as well as addressing some common myths the Big Tech lobbyists have sought to spread, and pressing for stronger restrictions. As it's not being streamed I will try and do a follow up post on Patreon <https://emma-briant.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7f9f1379bf0f0311ebba75d7&id=cb53eee205&e=ba76ce6920> as soon as I can after the event giving a report and brief reflection of the arguments. If you want to share, I’ve tweeted details here <https://twitter.com/EmmaLBriant/status/1591334163235295232?s=20&t=FnxRGHpmAh_Ywq35qQ9RzQ> . Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin