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Tag: Yochai Benkler
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Nation & World
Hard lessons from a tough election
The Gazette asked scholars and analysts across the University to reflect on lessons learned in the 2020 election.
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Nation & World
Tracing misinformation
Research shows elites, mass media play important role in spreading misinformation on mail-in voter fraud.
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Nation & World
Journalist, whistleblower, or dangerous security leak?
Legal, intelligence, and news analysts discuss the arrest in London of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces conspiracy charges by U.S. federal prosecutors for the disclosure of classified national security documents stolen by Pfc. Chelsea Manning
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Nation & World
‘Network Propaganda’ explored
“Network Propaganda,” which is based on a three-year study, examines American politics and the media ecosystem surrounding the 2016 presidential election.
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Nation & World
Campaign ’16: How coverage rerouted
A comprehensive report from the Berkman Klein Center found stark differences between what conservative media consumers read and shared online and what everyone else was doing.
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Nation & World
Sorting reality from ‘truthiness’
A Harvard and MIT symposium seeks to understand and address propaganda and misinformation in the new media ecosystem.
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Nation & World
The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered
Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.
