@reason.com 4 months ago
"'Nobody Was Tricked into Voting for Trump': Why the Disinformation Panic Is Over"
An interesting article in Politico.eu (Laurie Clarke). A few excerpts: "Everyone [following the 2016 Trump victory and the UK Brexit vote] was saying technology is to blame," said Reece Peck, associate professor of journalism and political communication at the City University of New York. "These algorithms are to blame." What followed was almost a decade...