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It’s been over three years since the United Kingdom narrowly voted to leave the European Union in June 2016 – and the role the news media played during the referendum […]
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Facebook’s News section, which launches Friday, is a big deal for newspapers, because Facebook is finally going to start paying them for their work. It is also an interesting, tacit […]
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The promise of the digital age encouraged us to believe that only positive changes would come when we lived in hyper-connected communities able to access any information we needed with […]
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Is the crisis in American democracy the result of propagandist intervention? Yochai Benkler reflects on the origins of current disfunction, encouraging scholars to distinguish between evidence of activities and evidence of effects, and urging us to look past recent political shocks to the roots of our epistemic crisis.
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As the impeachment inquiry heats up, members of Congress and the media are left with the difficult job of untangling the conspiracy theory that seems to have driven the president’s […]
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With a little more than a year to go before the 2020 election, U.S. newsrooms are gearing up for what they expect will be a deluge of misinformation aimed at […]
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A. Brad Schwartz is a Doctoral Candidate in American History at Princeton University and the author of Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake […]
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Many newsrooms rely on their editorial guidelines and code of ethics. Report the truth. Get the facts right. Be independent and impartial. Be transparent with your sources. Own up to […]
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“This event centers on the forms and formation of right-wing movements and conservative media outlets as they shaped the conditions leading up to the 2016 Presidential election, with an eye […]