Cynical exploitation of partisan rubbernecking, further facilitated by social media, has led to "asymmetric polarization". While there are extremists on both sides, there is still broad diversity from the center to the left, however the center right is a desert, and the far right is in a self-reinforcing spiral. Hence the current mess. Tune into our COMO3 webcast <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/como3> on Friday for proposed solutions! . <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: Network Propaganda] <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-10-04/network-propaganda>On *October 4 2018* the *Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/> *hosted a book panel event *Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018-10-04/network-propaganda>* at Harvard Law School. Authors *Yochai Benkler*, *Robert Faris*, and *Hal Roberts *presented the themes of *the book. <http://bit.ly/2ypHqJN>* Empirical analysis of millions of news stories and social media posts is used to overturn the conventional wisdom that new technologies and foreign agents swung the 2016 election in Trump’s favor and drove the current sense of a “post-truth” media landscape. Rather, the authors argue that longstanding institutional, political, and cultural patterns in American politics have interacted with technological change since the 1970s to create a propaganda feedback loop in American conservative media – a dynamic that has marginalized center-right media and politicians, radicalized the right wing ecosystem, and rendered it susceptible to propaganda efforts, foreign and domestic. After the presentation there was a panel discussion with respondents *Dr. Claire Wardle* and *Martha Minow.* *View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v7iWP-4rYg4 <https://youtu.be/v7iWP-4rYg4>Listen on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2Ja6Dfd <http://bit.ly/2Ja6Dfd>Download: video <http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/Misc/2018-10-04_networkpropaganda/2018-10-04_networkpropaganda.mov> | audio <http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/Misc/2018-10-04_networkpropaganda/2018-10-04_networkpropaganda.mp3>Book: OUP <http://bit.ly/2ypHqJN> | Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GK7J8XS/> | OSO <https://t.co/6Nkk63iJnj> (free)Report: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud <https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud>Twitter: #networkpropaganda http://bit.ly/2JcjfTi <http://bit.ly/2JcjfTi>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10637/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10637/> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -