The League of Women Voters will hold a meeting on identifying false information on election day – InForum

FARGO — The League of Women Voters of the Red River Valley will host a free event this week to help people spot misinformation related to the 2024 election.

Ashley Ledbury Hrychena, a board member of the League of Women Voters, will help prepare voters to identify and respond to election misinformation and disinformation, the league said in a news release.

Misinformation is “the intentional dissemination of false information without intent to cause harm,” while misinformation is “false information designed to mislead others and intentionally disseminated with the intent to confuse fact with fiction.”

according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

The event will be held at noon on Friday, November 1st at the Sons of Norway in downtown Fargo.

This First Friday event is free and open to the public. Lunch is available for purchase at Sons of Norway.

The presentation will be broadcast live and a recording will be posted on the League of Women Voters of the Red River Valley Facebook page, the release said.

From time to time, our editorial team reports articles under the heading “staff”. Often, the byline “staff” is used when transcribing major news stories that come from official sources, such as a city press release about a road closure, and that require little or no reporting. This attribution line is sometimes used when a story has multiple authors or when a story is created by combining previously reported news from different sources. If external sources are used, this is noted in the story.