What I can’t stop thinking about is how hard it’s been made to un-do that misinformation. Our bubbles have thick walls, by design. It’s going to take non-tradition modes of information sharing.
Reposted from Michael Hobbes
Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats.

The rise of authoritarianism in America *must* be understood as a misinformation crisis.

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