After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump

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The Branding of Right-Wing Activism: The News Media and the Tea Party

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Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

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20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America

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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

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Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

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Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It

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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

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Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption

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Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It

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The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech's War on Conservatives

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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News

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Accessing the Media: How to Get Good Press

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Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism

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Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide

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Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

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The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

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Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

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Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth

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The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

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Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong—And Just Doesn’t Care

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The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

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Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

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Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture

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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

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The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley: key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy

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Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time

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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills

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Politics of Disinformation

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You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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The 48 Laws of Power

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Behold a Pale Horse

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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The Prince

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Elon Musk

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Nazi Hunting: A Love Story: The husband and wife who, for six decades and counting, have made catching war criminals the family business

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The Overstory

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

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The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)

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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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White Fragility (Adapted for Young Adults): Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People (Adapted for Young Adults)

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Enough

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Facebook is not a democracy: We have access to more information now than at any other time in history, but we trust that information less than ever before. A Gallup survey recently found that 58 percent of respondents felt less informed because of today’s information abundance. As with a lot of things in life, too much of a good thing … Continue reading Facebook is not a democracy →

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Fake News: The Facts: There are lies, damn lies, and then there’s fake news. Manipulating the facts for political gain is as old as politics itself, but due to the rise of social media and search engine algorithms false stories can now spread like wildfire. In the run-up to...

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Harvey Weinstein, Masculinity & Mass Shootings, and Facebook, Trump, and the Attention Economy: We're asking a whole lot of whys about Las Vegas, sexual harassment, and political advertising on social media

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Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020): An interview with Claire Bond Potter

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Claire Bond Potter, "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020): An interview with Claire Bond Potter

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Social Media and Politics 2018 Year in Review, with Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten: Dr. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Senior Lecturer in European Studies at Lund University, joins host Michael Bossetta for the 3rd Annual Social Media and Politics Year in Review! Each presents three "gifts": nuggets of knowledge that look back to the key trends in social media and politics in 2018 or what to expect in 2019. We discuss politicians as influencers, most shared items on social media, artificial intelligence, clickbait, and much more!

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What’s Really Behind the Collapse of Trust in the Media

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The Briefcase: Comey, Flynn, & Mueller: We continue to put the pieces together during another whirlwind newsweek

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The Mid-Century Media Theorists Who Saw What Was Coming: “At the very heart of democracy is a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies from ancient Greece to contemporary America,” write Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing in their new book, “The Paradox of Democracy.” In order to live up to its name, democracy must be open to free communication and expression; yet that very feature opens democracies up to the forces of chaos, fragmentation and demagoguery that undermine them. Historically, this paradox becomes particularly profound during transitions between different communication technologies. “We see this time and again,” Gershberg and Illing write, “media continually evolve faster than politics, resulting in recurring patterns of democratic instability.” For that reason, Gershberg and Illing refer to media ecology — a field dedicated to studying the complex interplay between media, humans and their broader social environments — as “the master politica

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Can Democracy Survive the Internet? Nate Persily and Josh Tucker on Social Media and Democracy

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Cancel Culture & Polarization in the Age of COVID: How to Agree to Disagree

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How democracies can win the war on reality: The battle between facts and lies, truth and untruth, is one of the most pressing issues democracies face. Peter Pomerantsev joins us this week to discuss both the scope of the problem and what we can do about it.

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Ed Luce on America’s Future After the Midterms

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#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies: <p>In its first 28 days on Netflix, the documentary The Social Dilemma — about the possible harms being caused by social media and other technology products — was seen by 38 million households in about 190 countries and in 30 languages.<br></p>

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Max Fisher: Social Media and the Havoc on Our Minds

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4. Regulating Social Media as a Threat to Humanity: UnChecked, Ep. 4

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January 6 and the Insurrection: A Week to Week Political Roundtable Special: Exactly 12 months after a riot at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, we are going to take a look at what January 6 wrought

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How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation: Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true―and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity...

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Episode 103 — Dull Knives Don’t Cut: Ben and James discuss what kind of politicians and products cut through in the Internet age, and why they are profoundly different than what worked before. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Inspired Media — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Voters...

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Deborah Small, PhD: Processing Probabilistic Events and Making Donations: Deborah Small, PhD is a professor of marketing in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research crosses the intersections of psychology and economics, examining fundamental processes that underlie human decision making. In recent yea...

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Advocacy Against Hate: The proliferation of hate speech has fanned the flames of anti-Asian sentiment with messages associating China with the COVID-19 pandemic, all while downplaying the real and present threat of domestic terrorism fueled by white nationalism. And as we...

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#117 Sam Woolley on Journalism, Propaganda, and Ethics: The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement...

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Bonus: COVID-19 and Democracy with The Democracy Group: We are excited to collaborate with our partners in The Democracy Group podcast network to bring you a bonus episode on how COVID-19 is impacting democracy in the United States and around the world.  COVID-19 brings together several issues that have long been talked about separately — political polarization, misinformation, international cooperation, democratic norms and […]

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Trust, facts, and democracy in a polarized world: This episode was recorded before COVID-19 changed everything, but many of the themes we discuss about public opinion polling and the importance of trust and facts to a democracy are perhaps more relevant now than ever before. We talked with Michael Dimock, president of the Pew Research Center, about how the organization approaches polling in […]

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Andie Tucher, "Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History" (Columbia UP, 2022): An interview with Andie Tucher

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The 2019 version of Democracy in America: If Alexis de Tocqueville visited America today, what would he have to say about the condition of our democracy? We hear a lot in the news and on Twitter about how support for democracy is waning. We’re perhaps even a little guilty of it on this show. But, what do everyday Americans think? Some of … Continue reading The 2019 version of Democracy in America →

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#164 - Should Social Media Companies Honor the First Amendment?: With David French, Corynne McSherry, Nathaniel Persily, and Marietje Schaake

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220 Garbage in, garbage out: Dissecting the disinformation that clouds our decisions: All of the choices we make have one thing in common: Our decisions are only as good as the information we have to base them on. And with the rise of disinformation, misinformation, media manipulation, and social media echo chambers, we’re finding it increasingly hard to know what information to trust and to feel confident in the decisions we make. Harvard Kennedy School Professor Matthew Baum and Joan Donovan, the research director for the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, have been building a community of researchers and creating tools to help understand disinformation, where it comes from, and — hopefully — how to make it less of a threat in the future.

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Is Facebook the most evil company?: Five years ago I predicted that on earth. The claim was tongue-in-cheek, but the logic was solid: The "raw material" that Facebook uses to build its wealth is our personal information. As a public company, Facebook has a mandate to grow its profits...

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Interview on Grandstanding with Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke: Grandstanding is the use of moral talk for self-promotion. In this episode, I sit down with the authors of the book Grandstanding to talk about its causes, effects, and how to navigate this in our modern climate.