-Associate Prof, George Washington University -Author of “The MoveOn Effect” and “Analytic Activism”
QAnon, immersive gaming, and the impending nihilistic collapse of civic life
When you dissolve the boundary between politics and entertainment, things start to get weird.
That’s what I found myself thinking last night, as I read the latest story of how the dumbest-possible conspiracy theory, #QAnon…
We learned from the Washington Post last week that a Kremlin-backed Russian firm spent at least $100,000 on Facebook ads to influence the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. Writing in The Intercept, Sam Biddle argues that…
(This is a follow-up to Monday’s post, assessing the first week of the Trump Presidency. TL;DR version: I don’t believe we’re witnessing a trial balloon for a coup; I think this is what a nervous breakdown looks like in the Presidency.)
This is chaos. But what type of chaos?
