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We Cannot Just Moderate Extremism Away | Items
by Deana A. Rohlinger
March 26, 2021
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
by Reggie Ugwu
March 26, 2021
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
by Caroline Kitchener
March 24, 2021
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
by Marisa Iati
March 17, 2021
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
by Renée DiResta
March 16, 2021
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
by Bradi Collins-Dexter and Joan Donovan
March 11, 2021
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
by Chris Riotta
March 11, 2021
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
by Philip Bump
March 10, 2021
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
by Paul Blest
March 9, 2021
The state that wants to deregulate everything wants to tell Facebook and Twitter how to run their platforms. Gov. Greg…