ORGANIZERS: Sandrine Baume, Véronique Boillet, Vincent Martenet (Centre for Public Law, University of Lausanne) VENUE: University of Lausanne, Aula, IDHEAP, Quartier UNIL-Mouline, CH-1015 Lausanne FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: doriana.ferreira@unil.ch MISINFORMATION IN REFERENDA Image: © depositphotos.com, sdecoret FREE ENTRANCE, REGISTRATION AT: www.unil.ch/droitpublic/misinformation THURSDAY 30TH AUGUST 2018 9h30-10h00 Welcome and Introduction • Martial Pasquier (Vice Rector, University of Lausanne) • Laurent Moreillon (Dean, Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration, University of Lausanne) • François Chaudet (University of Lausanne) Session chair: Andreas Ladner (Director of the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne) 10h00-11h00 Truthfulness in politics: Relevance and standards • Sorin Baiasu (Keele University) Sincerity in politics: How much is too much? • Sandrine Baume (University of Lausanne) Why (post-)truth matters for democracy 11h30-12h30 Information misuse and the ways in which the media contributes to fact-checking • Lukas Lauener and Anke Tresch (University of Lausanne) The (mis)use of statistics in referendum votes • Laurent Bernhard (University of Lausanne) Fact-checking direct democracy: When journalists set out to correct misinformation Session Chair: Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (Head of the Legal Division, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law) 14h00-15h00 Which existing judicial remedies, if any, for which misinformation? Part I • Andreas Glaser (University of Zurich) Judicial remedies in a comparative perspective • Amanda Tyler (University of California, Berkeley) Judicial remedies in the United States 15h30-16h30 Which existing judicial remedies, if any, for which misinformation? Part II • Vincent Martenet (University of Lausanne) Judicial remedies in Switzerland • Bernd Holznagel (University of Münster) Network Enforcement Act – The German approach to fight fake news and digital violence in social networks 16h30-17h00 Digitalization of democracy • Stefan Klauser (ETHZ, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) How to make referenda work in the digital age FRIDAY 31ST AUGUST 2018 Session chair: Sophie Weerts (University of Lausanne) 9h00-10h30 How to regulate misinformation in the future? Part I • Alan Renwick (University College London) Can the quality of information and discourse during referendum campaigns be improved? • Patrick Taillon (University of Laval, Québec) Official and unofficial information: Which legal framework for referendum deliberation? • Thomas Hochmann (University of Reims) Misinformation and free speech: A French perspective 11h00-12h30 How to regulate misinformation in the future? Part II • Michel Besson (Federal Office of Justice, Bern) and Véronique Boillet (University of Lausanne) The guarantee of political rights facing misinformation: Do Swiss referenda need new regulation? • Carlo Fusaro (University of Florence) Misinformation: An old issue in a new context. The debate in Italy • Oscar Barberà (University of Valencia) Fake news: The 2017 referendum and regional elections in Catalonia 12h30-12h45 Observations and perspectives Conference Organizers 30th – 31st August 2018 International Conference University of Lausanne