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Is it Elon Musk, Twitter, or the Already Growing Populism in the US?

by Ali Cevat Ulubas | Dec 27, 2022 | Sabanci University

Blog Post The Case of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Elon Musk recently bought Twitter, a social media platform that has over 200 million users worldwide. After his purchase Musk announced a couple of new measures such as “relaxing content restrictions, combating fake and...

White Christian Nationalists “ReAwaken” America

by Joschua Schanda | Dec 26, 2022 | Sabanci University

For a little bit over 20 minutes, he enlightened his followers on how to “Save This God-Given Republic” from enemies both foreign and domestic. After he finished his speech, he turned to the crowd and invited people to get baptized. Many people followed his call. The...

Recent Election Leaves Brazil in Polarized State

by sschond1@binghamton.edu | Dec 10, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton

How football and politics are intertwined in a polarized post-election Brazil The most recent Brazilian presidential election between leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has left Brazil in a polarized state. Polarization is when...

How Twitter’s Free Speech Policy for Populists Hurts American Democracy

by Devin Rauscher | Nov 29, 2022 | Boston University

On Thursday, October 27, 2022, Elon Musk officially closed his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media site Twitter. In the following weeks, he fired several of Twitter’s top financial and legal executives, instated and then retracted a new plan for buying...

Vox, Populism, and Polarization: A Potential Threat to Spanish Democracy

by Aiden Cardozo | Nov 28, 2022 | Boston University

The rise of populist far-right parties in Europe threatens the continent’s democracies. These parties are dangerous not only because they threaten the political status quo but also because they employ dehumanizing rhetoric towards oppositional candidates which leads...
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