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Please take the time to watch RadPod’s new interview with Livia Ponzio, a political researcher and producer for documentary films, and the co-host with Monique Camarra of the Italian language podcast WTF! With Livia & Mo.

Ponzio will be our guest today, Sunday at 2 pm PT/5 pm ET to discuss her work infiltrating QAnon in Europe and inform us on the origins of the conspiracy theory and its impacts in Europe. She will also draw on her expertise on media in the time of Nazi Germany.

She will also inform us on current events in Italy, which is facing its own authoritarian threats and how the same cast of characters threatening America are linked transnationally.

Please have a listen to our interview, and I look forward to seeing many of you as we discuss how Russian narrative warfare takes old traumatic ‘fairytales’ to radicalize people away from democracy and toward authoritarianism using a specific military structure.

Here are the event details:

BETTE’S SPEAKEASY ZOOM SALON FEATURING LIVIA PONZIO:

• Today, Sunday, 1/14, 2 pm PT/5 pm ET

  • About Livia Ponzio: Italian-born Livia Ponzio is a documentary film researcher & producer. She has worked most of her career in The Netherlands for companies such as Submarine and Dutch national public broadcaster VPRO, later focusing on Film Development & Financing for a number of international clients and researching on a wide range of subject. She’s also been working as a Consultant for Invitalia, the Italian National Agency for business development under the Ministry of Economics. During her studies, Ponzio followed a MA programme at the University of Utrecht, faculty of Film, Television and New Media, specializing in the use of Media in the Third Reich Nazi Propaganda, an interest she has kept on cultivating through the years, shifting the focus of her research on Disinformation in the Digital Age and Russian Active Measures.

    Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Ponzio is part of a team of Italia journalists, government advisors and academics working on spreading to italian and international audiences un-biased information on current affairs surrounding the war, geopolitics and the Information War.
    Ponzio has also been co-host with Monique Camarra of a weekly talk-show on the Liberi Oltre online platforms titled “WTF! with Livia & Mo”. 

  • About Bette’s Speakeasy — these zoom salons are an opportunity for our guests to meet those whose efforts on behalf of democracy are learning opportunities for all of us — many authors, historians, reporters, filmmakers, and activists have enriched this community’s knowledge on how to best defend democracy.

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