Cautionary Notes on Disinformation and the Origins of Distrust – MediaWell

Yochai Benkler evaluates the effectivness of disinformation campaigns and how they have been elevated as a cause of the crisis of democratic society.

He suggests that "we may need to understand the political confusion less as a function of intentional, discrete propagandist interventions (though it is those too), and more as one facet of the more basic dynamic of the past decade: the collapse of neoliberalism in the Great Recession and the struggle to define what the new settlement that replaces it must become."

10/17/2019, Social Science Research Council, MediaWell