Justin Ling: We’ve Lost the Fight Against Disinformation. What Do We Do Now?

Presented in the days leading up to the fourth anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this lecture situates disinformation within the broader work of commemoration and protest.

Justin Ling is an award-winning investigative journalist who covers national security, politics, and plenty of other things. He is a staff columnist at the Toronto Star and a contributor to Foreign Policy and WIRED. He has covered the war against Ukraine, and the threat of Russian disinformation, for the past decade. His newsletter, Bug-eyed and Shameless, is all about information warfare.

Recorded on Saturday, February 21, 2026, 2:00 PM CST.