engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: Memes, cancel culture and baby Yoda
Memes aren't just juvenile fun - they're a potent weapon in the political armory, and we have to start taking them seriously.
comicsgate
Right-wing activists are using Twitter's trans policies to silence their critics
The next wave of online tactics used by the alt-right are being deployed, right now, in the world of comics. How long before they hit the mainstream?
alt right media
Accusing a political figure of facilitating child rape does not violate Facebook's community standards
Facebook has community standards. They're just very, very low.
alt right media
Breitbart's difficult third act
Is Brietbart, the alt-right site that cheered Trump and succoured Milo, in trouble? A Newsweek profile explores how it’s finding life in power much harder than opposition [http://www.newsweek.com/2017/06/23/breitbart-trump-bannon-fake-news-624726.html] : > After the London Bridge attack at the beginning of this month, Breitbart
alt right media
One neglected media business model: snake oil
You may have heard of Infowars – it’s widely regarded to be a Trump-supporting purveyor of fake news, another hub of the alt-right [https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/how-infowars-became-the-opposite-of-everything-it-set-out-to-be] . And it’s making money hand over fist. How? By selling dietary supplements [http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/05/
alt right media
Journalism is losing the culture war, because it's fighting last century's battles
When politicians can lie without consequence, our culture of fact-checking does little to stop them.
alt right media
Alt-right subreddits closed for doxing
Reddit has closed two major alt-right subreddits [https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2017/02/02/reddit-drops-the-ban-hammer-on-popular-alt-right-subreddits/] : > Reddit today blocked two prominent alt-right subreddits over “the proliferation of personal and confidential information.” Commonly referred to as ‘doxing,’ it appears a user (or users) of r/altright and r/AlternativeRight intentionally disseminated
alt right media
The Alt Right media embraced social media with a passion few others can match
John Herrman on the social media power and savvy of the alt-right media [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/business/media/online-everything-is-alternative-media.html] , in a piece for the New York Times: > The pro-Trump media understood that it was an insurgent force in a conversation conducted on social media
alt right media
The new, hyperpartisan media
This piece on hyperpartisan Facebook pages [https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-analysis], from Buzzfeed, becomes even more compelling in the light of today’s news: > Our analysis of three hyperpartisan right-wing Facebook pages found that 38% of all posts were either a mixture of true and false or mostly