by Andy Legget | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
The January 6th insurrection may have failed to achieve its goals on the day its right-wing participants stormed the U.S. Capital, but the movement was alive well before the 6th, and it continues to live on to this day. The hard truth of the matter is: the belief that...
by Brandtley Vickery | Nov 30, 2021 | University of Georgia
The “Army of Flies” and the Spread of Disinformation Millions of citizens in Saudi Arabia interact on Twitter daily, and pro-democracy advocates originally argued that social media could increase transparency in this authoritarian monarchy. Instead, the...
by Callie Fauntleroy | May 20, 2021 | George Washington University
On January 15, 2021, a popular messaging app called Signal, crashed globally. After WhatsApp altered its privacy agreement to share its data with Facebook, Signal saw a surge of new users, prompting the crash. This same day, the Iranian government created a ban on the...
by Callie Fauntleroy | May 20, 2021 | George Washington University
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist and Saudi regime critic, was murdered on October 2nd, 2018 by the Saudi Arabian government inside a Turkish Consulate. Fumbling for a secure alibi that did not exist, the Saudi government instead publicized false claims that Khashoggi was...
by Auston Alderman | Mar 25, 2021 | Georgia State University
The specter of the mainstream media is worrisome and even more so when hearing about the growing concentration of media under a few corporations[1]. There are also issues of misinformation and the masquerading of opinionated articles as “journalistic” pieces,...
