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Times Event: How to Save Ourselves From Disinformation Comedian Sarah Silverman and The Times’s Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Davey Alba explore how disinformation spreads, and how we can fight back. Video April 27, 2021Updated 8:07 p.m. ET Times subscribers can on Wednesday, May 26 at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. It spreads through social media and message boards. Through television pundits and talk radio. And in daily conversations, in every corner of the world. Disinformation can ch...

such faulty ideas, concepts and terms actually misrepresent whats happening online Filter bubbles and echo chambers have become popular concepts in media commentary. They are frequently invoked as an explanation for the apparent rise of conspiracy theories, extremism and social division. In this popular conception, filter bubbles and echo chambers are "destroying democracy" by reducing our exposure to diverse ideas while fostering extremism among like-minded people. These ideas became popular ...

Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate A little-noticed group of government-funded researchers is developing a clever inoculation against the disinformation and violence threatening American democracy. By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated February 5, 2021, 3:01 a.m. Email to a Friend Cornelia Li for the Boston Globe The coronavirus vaccine rollout, however chaotic, has been cause for optimism; we can all hope that COVID-19 will soon lose its power. But it’s ...

The Social Dilemma. Here are three observations about culture and politics as viewed through the prism of the last days of the Trump administration and the first days of the Biden one.   OBSERVATION #1: The Influencer Economy Has Produced a Base of Reaction “Everyone is making media at all times,” CNN reporter Elle Reeve reported of January 6 capital siege. “It’s crazy. It’s like, ‘Were you there if you didn’t livestream it?’ And they’re all hoping for that viral moment that ...

I mean, likeif youre a cooking video person and you get steered to diys, theres nothing wrong with it. but on a platform where there are extremists, it pulls people in and thats what happened to caleb. >> i have a six-year-old that is being pulled in. youtube bans videos glorifying nazi and things like the holocaust. but it seems like the nazi videos are more subtle than that. >> the far right has gotten very good at sort of gaming youtubes algorithm, and one of the ways they do that is they kin...

Fast-tracked, and the president seems to be squashing it. thank you all so much. now to an important story about the way the internet and specifically youtube which so many of our kids are on all day can lead people down idealogical rabbit holes and transform them into political extremists by fueling hyperpartisanship and feeding them a steady diet of conspiracy theories. kevin bruce wrote this front page extraordinary piece titled "the making of a youtube radical." kevin, congratulations. wha...