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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 change minds and fuel movements. But is it an unstoppable force? How can we resist a torrent of falseh...

such faulty ideas, concepts and terms actually misrepresent what's 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 in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election and they remain popular now to explain everything ...

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 hard to be sanguine about the course of our other pandemic: hate. The storming of the Capitol on Jan...

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 will give them more clout on social media.” The commitment to posting—even though this particula...

I mean, likeif you're a cooking video person and you get steered to diys, there's nothing wrong with it. but on a platform where there are extremists, it pulls people in and that's 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 youtube's algorithm, and one of the ways they do that is they kind of cross genres. so they will appeal to, say, gam gamers, and while he's doing that, he'll tal...