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How social media changed America

Americast

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Is Donald Trump a Gateway Drug?

Marianna, listening to what Ben's saying, does that track with what you see on the undercover voters' feeds about the difference between left and right? We've seen that populist right, Brittany, for example, has been exposed to a lot of conspiracy pages and groups. Ideas that pop stars are stealing and eating babies, which tapped into QAnon, or disinformation about voting. And the left, with our character Emma, she's been seeing a lot of quite, or more extreme, political activism but it never quite tips into the same level of conspiracy as Donald Trump's feed did.

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