Joel

Writer, editor, drummer, dad, @UTJSchool grad. Interests: politics, policy, punk rock. Opinions: mine & mine alone. Take my tweets seriously, but not literally.

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From Trolls on Twitter: How Mainstream and Local News Outlets Were Used to Drive a Polarized News Agenda by Jonathan Albright

Trolls are using real news — and in particular local news — to drive reactionary news coverage, set the daily news agenda, and target local journalists and community influencers to follow certain stories.

From Confronting a Nightmare for Democracy by David Carroll

…is being processed internationally, we must take drast…is being processed internationally, we must take drastic actions to equalize the value of one vote. Deploying hyper-targeted voter media that constructs narrow or outright fabricated versions of the truth to i…

From Confronting a Nightmare for Democracy by David Carroll

…processed internationally, we must take drastic actions to equalize the value of one vote. Deploying hyper-targeted voter media that constructs narrow or out…processed internationally, we must take drastic actions to equalize the value of one vote. Deploying hyper-targeted voter media that constructs narrow or outright fabricated versions of the truth to influence small subsets of voters in strategically important geographies is a scenario our founding fathers never imagined.