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Share: Two rival theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience. I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately, the total shitshow of the now. According to one oft-told story, what’s going on is systemic polarization. Our once-peaceful society has been riven into polarized camps. Extremism and political separation are the c...

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” This accidentally poignant cartoon [1] from The New Yorker in 1993 kicked off a long-standing tension between the internet and truth. Nearly 20 years later, when a 22-year old actress pretended to quit her job using a dry erase board and company-wide email it became apparent that many still believed the aphorism “if it’s on the internet, it must be true [2]”. In the 2010s, the seeming war between the internet and truth grew to unprecedented heights. The buildup to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections brought home to far more people, n...

"It’s a sticky wicket because of our Constitution, but we need to examine and be frank with each other about what is taking place," says Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., pictured May 14, 2020, during a House committee hearing. Eshoo is co-author of a letter to cable companies asking whether they intend to renew contracts with Fox News and other conservative news outlets. (Photo: Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) A House subcommittee held a virtual hearing Wednesday on how to weed out what Democrats call “disinformation and extremism” in the media.  House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone...

by Thomas E. Patterson, The Journalist's Resource October 27, 2020 h1 Election Beat 2020: How news outlets become misinformation superspreaders /h1 p class "byline" by Thomas E. Patterson, The Journalist's Resource br October 27, 2020 /p p Russia is again peddling misinformation in an attempt to upend our election. It’s an important news story, but there’s a larger threat that’s getting less coverage. In a New York University Stern School a href "https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2019/april/tackling-domestic-disinformation--what-the-social-media-companie.html" st...

Wed, Jan 20th 2021 9:33am — Mike Masnick While lots of people have been blaming social media for the insurrection at the Capitol a few weeks back, fewer have recognized that Fox News is at least as much to blame, if not more. As we've covered in the past, Yochai Benkler's book, Network Propaganda, went into great detail with tons of data and evidence, to highlight how, contrary to popular belief, the crazy conspiracy theories don't really spread that quickly on social media... until after Fox News picks them up. That book also highlights how, while "left-wing" media has its own fair share...