There is a stark partisan divide over who’s to blame for misinformation circulating during the presidential election season, according to new research from the George Washington University. A nationwide survey found Republicans and Democrats are highly concerned about the spread of misinformation and the potential impacts it might have on […] Read more »
Few Americans are confident in tech companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the 2020 election
Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) express little or no confidence in technology companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in January. At the same time, 78% say these companies have […] Read more »
Trump Is Waiting and He Is Ready
There are three crucial developments working in Donald Trump’s favor in the 2020 presidential campaign. These include what a group of Harvard economists — Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva and Armando Miano — describe in a recent paper as “The Polarization of Reality.” They write: Evidence is growing that Americans are […] Read more »
Putin would recognize Trump’s ‘reality TV’ techniques in the State of the Union address
On Feb, 4, President Trump gave his third State of the Union address. This year’s address included more political theater than we’ve seen in the annual event before. … Trump’s showmanship was more strategic and consequential than it might appear at first. In researching nondemocratic regimes, I’ve found that when […] Read more »
American voters worry they can’t spot misleading information, poll finds
Four years after Russia launched a cyber campaign to disrupt and influence the 2016 presidential campaign, about a third of Americans say misleading stories on social media pose the biggest threat to the safety of U.S. elections, and half think President Donald Trump encourages election interference, according to the latest […] Read more »
Searching for truth in an era of ‘alternative facts’: Disinformation in the age of Trump
In an era of politics and journalism that includes “fake news” and disinformation campaigns, it can be difficult to separate the truth from fiction. That was the topic of Sunday’s special edition of “Meet the Press,” entitled “Alternative Facts: Inside the Weaponization of Disinformation.” CONT. Ben Kamisar, NBC News Read more »