Francesca Bolla Tripodi, “The Propagandists’ Playbook”
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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The Role of Misinformation in American History
The archival data of Twitter tells the deep story of stolen elections. But what my research demonstrates in my book is that this is actually a pretty tired, recycled narrative dating back to the 1800s. W.E.B. Du Bois talks about how educational texts have been weaponized as a form of misinformation and claim that they were subhuman.
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