Who Poisoned My News?

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 3:42 p.m.

Social media has corrupted the truth, spawned fake news and contributed to the collapse of polite political norms \u2013 right or wrong?

A systematic, in-depth study of American news media before and after Trump takes a deeper plunge into the right-wing ecosystem at large, with surprising findings. Yochai Benkler of Harvard University, co-author of\xa0Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics\xa0explains.

This episode is made possible by the Israel office of\xa0Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education.