{"id":152659,"date":"2019-08-21T16:32:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=152659"},"modified":"2019-08-21T16:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T20:32:31","slug":"farnsworth-lectures-at-fake-news-hackathon-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/08\/21\/farnsworth-lectures-at-fake-news-hackathon-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Farnsworth Lectures at Fake News Hackathon in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure id=\"attachment_152660\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152660\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152660\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Farnsworth-Photo-3-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of UMW's Center for Leadership and Media Studies\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Farnsworth-Photo-3-300x240.jpg 300w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Farnsworth-Photo-3-768x615.jpg 768w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Farnsworth-Photo-3-1024x820.jpg 1024w, \/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Farnsworth-Photo-3.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of UMW&rsquo;s Center for Leadership and Media Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University&rsquo;s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a lecture, &ldquo;How Governments and Media Companies Struggle with Fake News,&rdquo; at the Break the Fake Hackathon, a project of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative and U.S. Department of State. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Professor Farnsworth, who was in Malaysia this summer as a Fulbright Specialist at Methodist College Kuala Lumpur, also judged the hackathon entries, projects designed to assist in the identification of fake news or to reduce its dissemination.<\/p><p>Dr. Farnsworth has also been quoted in several national and world news stories:<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/virginia-republican-in-close-election-race-backs-red-flag-gun-bill\/2019\/08\/16\/9b779872-c02c-11e9-b873-63ace636af08_story.html\">Virginia Republican in close race now backs &lsquo;red flag&rsquo; gun bill (The Washington Post, Greenwich Time)<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=1756680\">Trump steps up attack on Congresswoman (CTV News Canada)<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistacredencial.com\/credencial\/noticia\/actualidad\/la-salud-presidencial-un-asunto-publico-o-privado\">Presidential Health, a private or public matter? (Revista Credencial)&nbsp;<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesterfieldobserver.com\/articles\/democrats-see-boost-in-fundraising\/\">Democrats see boost in fundraising (Chesterfield Observer)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University&rsquo;s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a lecture, &ldquo;How Governments and Media Companies Struggle with Fake News,&rdquo; at the Break the Fake Hackathon, a project of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative and U.S. Department of State. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Professor Farnsworth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":152660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[233,9040,814],"class_list":["post-152659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-center-for-leadership-and-media-studies","tag-department-of-political-science-and-international-affairs","tag-sfarnswo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}