The Wrong Side of History

　　President Trump’s statement following the events in Charlottesville in August, in which he said “both sides” were to blame, showed his complicity with ideologies that promote hate, especially directed toward marginalized groups. The events in Charlottesville caused lookups for white supremacist, nazi, neo-nazi, anti-fascist, and antifa to trend in our data.

　　Social Media as a Propaganda Platform

　　In late October, Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified in front of congress about online content created and circulated by Russian operatives with the purpose of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. Officials from each of these companies swore in before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee for questioning about political ads sold to Russian trolls. The subcommittee chipped away at the question of how these companies (with the top technological resources in the world) could allow this to happen. To what extent are these companies complicit in the propagation of propaganda, fake news, and disinformation? The answer is extremely nuanced and still up for debate, but just raising the question is an important first step.

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