The impact of fake news extends beyond politics and current affairs. It undermines our trust in people and institutions in ways that affect how we believe and belong. In this lecture, Eli Gottlieb combines insights from recent research into the effects of misinformation with an account of his own journey down a rabbit-hole to get to the bottom of a tweet claiming that Big Ben was stolen from Palestine. He then applies these insights to exploring what religious communities and traditions could do to repair trust.

Eli Gottlieb is a cultural psychologist, strategic consultant and a senior visiting scholar at The George Washington University. He directed the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem for over a decade, before which he led various programs in Jewish education and leadership development in Israel and overseas. Born in London, Eli immigrated to Israel after completing degrees in Philosophy and Psychology at Cambridge. He holds a doctorate in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, including Stanford and Harvard.

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