Kathleen Belew and Joan Donovan | Elections 2024: Misinformation and White Nationalism

What links resurgent racisms, disavowals of science, and anti-immigration politics? How has the info-sphere been weaponized in ways that both capture and polarize rather than offering the grounds for political consensus?
As part of 3CT's series of Theorizing the Present events on the 2024 US elections, Joan Donovan and Kathleen Belew discussed online disinformation campaigns, racial grievance, and the stakes of the 2024 US election for democratic order, pluralism, and truth telling in the United States. 3CT fellow Joseph Masco moderated the discussion.
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