The 11th annual Masterman Speaker Series event presented by Suffolk University Law School, titled "Truth in the Age of Disinformation, Misinformation, and AI", explores truth in an age of rapid and ever-expanding access to extensive amounts of information from a myriad of sources of varying reliability.
This year, the Masterman Speaker Series will examine how influential members of society, including the media, lawyers, and journalists/journalism schools, are adjusting – or are trying to adjust – to this brave new world, where people are increasingly relying on sources that may have been generated by AI, that may be tainted by disinformation and/or misinformation, and that may be coming from outside the fourth estate.
Jonathan M. Albano, a litigation partner in the Boston office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, who has over 40 years of experience representing news organizations, reporters, publishers and authors in libel, privacy and copyright actions, litigating public access to information claims, defending against subpoenas of confidential sources and unpublished journalistic materials, and counseling on pre-publication review matters.
Dan Lothian, the Editor-in-Chief of GBH News and the Executive Producer of The World national radio broadcast, as well as the former host of the GBH program State of Race, who has decades of experience in local and national radio and television, including more than a decade as a correspondent at CNN covering the White House, presidential campaigns, and breaking news, as well as seven years as a National Correspondent at NBC News with stories on Nightly News, the Today Show, and MSNBC.
Rachael Cobb, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Suffolk University, who is an expert in civic education and political engagement, specializing in American politics, with a particular focus on voting rights and political participation.
Professor Renée Landers is a Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration and the Masters of Science in Law: Life Sciences program at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
