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We Cannot Just Moderate Extremism Away | Items
On January 6, 2021, the world watched in shock as Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol. While some of…
On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate | The New York Times
He had already been banned from Twitter, but on his podcast he could give full voice to his hateful conspiracy…
49 percent of Republican men won’t get vaccinated. These women are trying to change their minds. | The Lily
Tanya Garcia plans to get her coronavirus vaccine as soon as she is eligible — regardless of what her husband…
A newspaper has a novel strategy for covering one politician’s falsehoods: Don’t | The Washington Post
Ohio’s biggest newspaper is taking an unusual tack toward covering falsehoods from a U.S. Senate candidate: It doesn’t plan to…
The Misinformation Campaign Was Distinctly One-Sided | The Atlantic
On the morning of September 21, 2020, three trays of United States mail were discovered in a ditch in Greenville, Wisconsin. The local…
How a racialized disinformation campaign ties itself to The 1619 Project | Columbia Journalism Review
Footage of the January 6 Capitol insurrection revealed hundreds of references to 1776—in signs and in speeches, on t-shirts and…
Nearly a third of all Republicans say they ‘definitely won’t’ get vaccinated, citing Trump’s Covid falsities | Independent
Nearly one-third of all Republicans are opposed to receiving coronavirus vaccinations, according to a growing number of polls, as reports…
The community element of dangerous conspiracy theories | The Washington Post
It’s convenient and comforting to think of conspiracy theorists as isolated loners. There’s an element of deviance to such theorizing,…
Texas Wants to Ban Facebook and Twitter … From Banning | Vice
The state that wants to deregulate everything wants to tell Facebook and Twitter how to run their platforms. Gov. Greg…