The authors of this study I've linked a few times have written a book-length, um, book on the same subject of asymmetric radicalization and disinformation in the right-wing media ecosystem. It's called Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics.
Happily, the book is currently available for free at this link here:
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id ... pg=GBS.PP1
I'm about half way through and it's fantastic. Also, deeply disconcerting, but fantastic.
Network Propaganda
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Re: Network Propaganda
Geez, can't you guys just accept that you lost in 2016, and that you lost on your own merits?
This lopsided "academic" notion for right wing exclusivity, or even a mostly right wing, occurrence of propaganda in the media is tiresome. Mutually exchangeable between left and right are propaganda terms like illegal-immigrant, racist-cop, entitlement, corporation. etc... Just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is in step with Trump's twitter-media strategy. How insightful, nay arrogant, for yet another academic (with a grant) to illuminate us all that the media is being used to distribute Republican and Democratic political messages...quick, somebody tell the newspaper cartoonists.
This lopsided "academic" notion for right wing exclusivity, or even a mostly right wing, occurrence of propaganda in the media is tiresome. Mutually exchangeable between left and right are propaganda terms like illegal-immigrant, racist-cop, entitlement, corporation. etc... Just look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is in step with Trump's twitter-media strategy. How insightful, nay arrogant, for yet another academic (with a grant) to illuminate us all that the media is being used to distribute Republican and Democratic political messages...quick, somebody tell the newspaper cartoonists.
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I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them
what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams
If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
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Re: Network Propaganda
subgenius wrote:Geez, can't you guys just accept that you lost in 2016, and that you lost on your own merits?
This lopsided "academic" notion for right wing exclusivity, or even a mostly right wing, occurrence of propaganda in the media is tiresome.
Extensive evidence is annoying to you, isn't it?
Mutually exchangeable between left and right are propaganda
If only somebody linked a book's worth of data and analysis showing that this is asymmetric and not merely a "both sides" phenomenon.