Francesca Tripodi on the Capitol Riot
Francesca Tripodi and affiliate Rebecca Lewis spoke with Josh Braun about the January 6, 2020 attack on the U.S. Capitol and how the riot changes our understanding of media effects. What you’ll see, from Bill O’Reilly all the way up to Q drops, is a call on believers to “do their own research,” to not…
Shannon McGregor on Deplatforming
On “Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins,” broadcast by WFAE, Shannon McGregor joined NPR tech correspondent Shannon Bond and Check My Ads co-founder Nandini Jammi to talk about social media companies’ use of deplatforming users who violate their policies. These social media companies have the right to prioritize or deprioritize whatever kind of speech they want….
Zeynep Tufekci on pandemic policy
The New York Times’s Ezra Klein interviewed Zeynep Tufekci about Omicron, vaccination, and public policy responses to Covid. They dug into the question of policy failures and missed opportunities in responding to the pandemic: So there’s a world in which we could have just gotten it all together and probably vaccinated everybody in the world…