Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Aaron Blake @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 22
[....] the 2016 campaign wasn't just about media polarization and President Trump bashing the mainstream press; it was also about dubious information. A new study provides a troubling look at how much websites that peddle fake news and conspiracy theories infected Trump's base of support.
The extensive study, from Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, tracked down the most linked-to news sources on Twitter for supporters of both Trump and Hillary Clinton. The study collected 4.5 million tweets and searched for users who retweeted either Trump or Clinton. From there, it analyzed the URLs that these users shared on their feeds.
Fourth on the list of most-shared sources among Trump supporters on Twitter was Gateway Pundit, a site especially notorious for trafficking in hoaxes and falsehoods. No. 13 on the list was InfoWars, Alex Jones's conspiracy theory website, which is infamous for suggesting the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, among many other things [.....]
Comments
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/22/2017 - 8:38pm
TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUE!! Republicans will believe what they are told to believe, and fall in line like good Nazis....!!
Salute if you want a beautiful WALL!!
by NCD on Tue, 08/22/2017 - 11:02pm
But Hillary needed a stronger message....
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 1:54am