by Talia Yett | Dec 3, 2024 | Brown University
As the 2016 US Presidential election approached, ‘fake news’ surged across the internet, with hundreds of pro-Trump websites shared by millions of people. At least 100 of these sites have been traced to Veles, a town of 41,000 in the Balkan nation of North Macedonia....
by Hannah Kesner | Mar 14, 2022 | University of Georgia
https://medium.com/@marcushjohnson/bernie-sanders-and-donald-trump-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-a862b80762e7 While scholars differ on an exact definition of populism, the overall consensus is that it is a “thin-centered ideology” revolving around the will of the...
by Ian Mcgrail | Dec 9, 2019 | Salem State University
During the last five years, Russian-organized spreads of disinformation over various social media platforms have undermined democracy in the United States. The crusade Russian platforms have waged...
by Anjali Nahata | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
“It is now clear that social media and intensely partisan television and radio broadcasts disseminated a massive number of messages during the 2016 Presidential election campaign designed to demonize candidates and seriously distort the facts upon which many voters...
by Emily O'malley | Feb 21, 2019 | Rollins College
Nobody can deny that the election of Donald Trump has shaken up democracy in the United States. His authoritarian tendencies are cause for concern, both for the Republican Party and for the country as a whole. The question posed in Alison Gerzina’s “How...
