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Investigating the January 6th Insurrection

by Maggie Doran | Jun 25, 2022 | University of Denver

A peaceful transfer of presidential power seems to be the normal, expected experience. For generations, we have watched as losing candidates respectfully attend the inauguration of their winning counterpart as the losers modestly accept that the outcome of a...

Social Media Influence on Young Voters Continues to Increase: Is It Dangerous? 

by Zachary Walsh | Apr 24, 2022 | Suffolk University

The world has 3.96 active social media users, thirty-one percent of whom are within the ages of 18 to 24. Their constant feed of information from non-traditional news sources has drastically changed the dynamic of how politics is displayed to young voters, creating a...

Conspiracy in American Politics: QAnon Steps Up to the Political Stage

by Elle M | Apr 20, 2022 | Rollins College

QAnon, a political conspiracy movement, has grown in popularity in recent years among political right extremists. According to the Grid investigative journalist Steve Riley–an expert on threats to democracy–data visualization reporter Matt Stiles, and...

Why Far Right Propaganda Became a Threat to Democracy

by Andrew R | Mar 7, 2021 | Rollins College

Burke is correct in claiming that the issues of far-right political beliefs have been an unfortunate constant in the United States for decades. Donald Trump’s presidency (and the use of the agencies granted him through such a position) was only the lamp that shed...

QAnon and America’s Problem with Polarization and Disinformation

by Livi Hally | Nov 23, 2020 | Northeastern University

Signs from a Trump Rally; photo by Al Drago of the New York Times In early December of 2016, a gunman opened fire in a D.C. restaurant, under the belief that children were being held in its basement as a part of a pedophilia ring involving Democratic Presidential...

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