Keynote: Nicole Skews-Poole
| Tuesday, November 19, 2024 |
| 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM |
| Plenary Room, Rongomātāne |
Overview
Disinformation impacts on local government
Speaker
Nicole Skews-Poole
Anchordown
Disinformation impacts on local government
Abstract
Nicole will outline the growth of false information and related polarisation in Aotearoa over the last four years. She'll unpack some of the key events, themes, contributing factors and methods that researchers have observed as this phenomena has grown both locally and worldwide. Nicole will discuss how these themes relate to the work and purpose of local government, and the challenges created by increasingly extreme behaviour both online and offline.
Biography
Nicole Skews-Poole is a communicator specialising in understanding disinformation and building organisational resilience to online targeting.
She has a background in strategic communications, crisis response and social media. After leading some of the first government responses to COVID-19 disinformation and online harassment, she then worked as the Director of Communications for research group, The Disinformation Project.
Nicole now has her own small social enterprise where she consults across sectors and provides training to communications teams and senior leadership.
