The Real Side of Fake News: How Reddit Enables Propaganda Through Anonymity

The Real Side of Fake News: How Reddit Enables Propaganda Through Anonymity
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NEW YORK – Today’s digital devices and social networks deliver so much information that even the savviest consumer cannot evaluate all of it. We seem to be living in a version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, where truth is drowned in a sea of irrelevance. But the future need not be the dystopia that the present seems to suggest.

The share of Americans who get their news from social media has grown rapidly in recent years, to 62% as of 2016. And yet, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, media, academic, technology, and publishing professionals have increasingly come to view the Internet as a cesspool of hate speech, anger, and trolls... Read More On Project Syndicate

Alexis Ohanian Keynote at SXSW 2017

Alexis Ohanian Keynote at SXSW 2017

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