Conspirituality co-author Julian Walker joins us to discuss how influencers have curdled New Age spirituality and wellness with the politics of paranoia.
Does political ideology affect economic growth? How do interest groups influence government? How do political parties help unify the American people? How does government affect culture? How does sociology shape public policy? How does fake news impact political behavior?
Fake newsSocial mediaPeople are increasingly consuming news curated by machine learning (ML) systems. Motivated by studies on algorithmic bias, this paper explores which recommendations of an algorithmic news curation system users trust and how this trust is affected by untrustworthy news stories like...
Everyone, from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to the roadside political henchman today knows about fake news. This is the news that does not exist but has been cooked up to influence and provoke people into action. Images, videos and texts are morphed and created to give...
What’s more, the impact on reputation does not only affect public figures. While celebrities and politicians may be more likely to be targeted by deepfakes in the first place, they also have more recognition, resources, and status to help control the narrative. However, an ordinary person ma...
Sometimes trolls are also hackers. Not allhackersare cut from the same cloth. Some use their programming knowledge to probe code and programs to see how they work. They might create their own applications based on the work of others or modify code so that a program does something new. Other...
How does the liar’s dividend affect democracy? It impedes empowered inclusion when doubts about the misconduct of public officials, political candidates, or representatives prevent citizens (or relevant bodies) from holding perpetrators accountable, e.g. by deselection (Warren, 2017: 48) or prosecu...
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Does the relationship between media use and learning about climate change depend more on audiences' scientific literacy on their ideological biases? To ans... EC Nisbet,KE Cooper,M Ellithorpe - 《Public Understanding of Science》 被引量: 3发表: 2014年 The Fake News Effect: Experimentally Identif...
Kelly’s critiques werealso echoed by former Trump-era DHS assistant chief of staffELIZABETH NEUMANNyesterday,Lisa Kashinsky, Daniel Lippman, Myah Ward and Irie Sentner report: “‘Does he have authoritarian tendencies? Yes,” Neumann said in an interview with POLITICO. “Is he kind of ...