December 12-13, 2020 – Berlin & Tbilisi
Live from Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin and Tbilisi, Georgia

HATE NEWS vs. FREE SPEECH brings together journalists, activists and media experts from Georgia and Germany to discuss strategies to fight misinformation, hate speech and social network manipulation and to strengthen freedom of speech.

Speakers:
Tamar Kintsurashvili (Executive Director of Media Development Foundation, Associate Professor at Ilia State University, GE), Nini Gvilia (Project Assistant, Social Media Monitoring at The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy ISFED, GE), Nata Dzvelishvili (Executive Director at Indigo Publishing, GE), Mikheil Benidze (Chief of Party, Georgia Information Integrity Program at Zinc Network, GE), Rafael Goldzweig (Research Coordinator, Democracy Reporting International -DRI, DE), Eka Rostomashvili (Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator at Transparency International, GE/DE), Giorgi Tabagari (Civic Activist, Director Tbilisi Pride, GE), Nino Danelia (Head of Journalism and Media Research at Ilia State University, Founder of Coalition for Media Advocacy, Founder of Georgian Women Movement, GE), Josephine Ballon (Legal Head at Hate Aid, DE), Varoon Bashyakarla (Data Scientist, Tactical Tech’s Data & Politics Project, DE), Alistair Alexander (Researcher, trainer and consultant, IE/DE), Maya Talakhadze (Co-founder, Regional Democratic Hub – Caucasus, GE), Tatiana Bazzichelli (Founding Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE), Lieke Ploeger (Community Director, Disruption Network Lab, NL/DE).