@Teri_Kanefield "Whenever a half dozen people ask me the same question [...]": nice illustration that the supposed faults of social media are either originated or amplified by traditional media, as nothing else makes so many people believe the exact same thing as the same time.

As Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris and Hal Roberts found in #NetworkPropaganda:
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/01/18/splinters-our-discontent-review-network-propaganda/

The Splinters Of Our Discontent: A Review Of Network Propaganda

Years before most of us thought Donald Trump would have a shot at the presidency, the Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez put a name on a problem he saw in American conservative intellectual cult…

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@cosmo In caso sia utile: il libro di riferimento su tutte queste faccende al momento è #NetworkPropaganda di Yochai Benkler. (Lo spazio di un libro consente sfumature che in una discussione veloce per forza di cosa si tralasciano.)
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624

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Network Propaganda

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