“Telling The Truth” will take place on Friday, October 28, 2022 at the NYState Writers Institute. The two panels are “Truth in Media” at 5:30 p.m. and “Politics and Disinformation” at 7pm. This year’s conversations will address attacks on truth, free speech, a free press, and the First Amendment, as well as propaganda, misinformation, hacks, deep fakes, conspiracy theories, and other ongoing threats to our democracy that crystallized in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Paul Grondahl, the director of the New York State Writers Institute, spoke with WOOC's Sina Basila Hickey. Nyswritersinstitute.org.

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