What to Expect When You're Electing

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 7:15 a.m.

b"The 2016 U.S. presidential election blew up our ideas about influence campaigns in the age of screens. Two years later, Veronica Belmont and Baratunde Thurston examine how the internet is changing our minds, our votes, and our democracies \\u2013 all over the world.\\n\\nPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Scott Shane details the United States' long history with election meddling. Paris correspondent for the Washington Post, James McAuley, shines a light on how other countries are managing the changing dynamics of online political campaigns. And speculative fiction authors Malka Older and Genevieve Valentine describe what elections may look like in the future, with advances in technology. \\n\\nIRL is an original podcast from Mozilla. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org"