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  • 6 - How Digital Disinformation Turned Dangerous

  • from Part IV - The Policy Problem
  • Edited by W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Steven Livingston, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    The Disinformation Age
    Published online:
    06 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 153-168
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  • Summary

    Karpf explores how online conspiracy theories, disinformation, and propaganda havechanged over the 25-year history of the World Wide Web. Drawing a historical comparisonbetween digital disinformation in the 1996 and the 2016 presidentialelections, the chapter explores how the mechanisms of online diffusion, the politicaleconomy of journalism and propaganda, and the slow, steady erosion of load-bearingnorms among political elites have combined to create a much more dangerous contexttoday than in decades' past. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how technologyplatforms, political elites, and journalistic organizations might respond to the current stateof online disinformation.