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Algorithms & Anachronisms: How New Tech & Old Politics are Holding Us Back
In May, social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt wrote a devastating critique of social media practices and how they’re undermining and sabotaging American democracy. Although Haidt concedes that political polarization long predates the rise of social media platforms, he believes that the tools of virality—Facebook’s Like and Share buttons, Twitter’s Retweet function etc.—have algorithmically and irrevocably corroded…
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Peter Pomerantsev: This Is Not Propaganda
Peter Pomerantsev, senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, discusses how to reckon with misinformation and disinformation online, and how we can center democracy in online communication.
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Forming a Collective International Response to Non-State Armed Groups
On Thursday, July 28th, 2022, AfP hosted a conversation exploring how the international community can shape a cooperative response to the central challenges and threats from non-state armed groups around the world. Building off of the recent Atlantic Council publication, Toward a Framework for Transatlantic Cooperation on Non-State Armed Groups, this event discussed a broad…
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Improving Illinois Redistricting Listening Session
CHANGE Illinois staff joined the Metropolitan Planning Council on August 3rd to discuss the recently-concluded redistricting cycle for the 2020s in Chicago and in Illinois. With conversation and insight from: Rev. Damon Smith, Outreach Director at CHANGE Illinois; Rory Gilchrist, Projects Coordinator at CHANGE Illinois and former Chicago Advisory Redistricting Commission member; Debbie Liu, Community…
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Media Bias: How AllSides Provides Balanced, Unbiased News
This video lays out the AllSides news curation process to show users how we create balanced news.
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America’s Vulnerable Elections
In this session, we will take a look at the challenges facing our elections, particularly at the structures the country has used for many generations that in an era of hyperpartisanship have become sources of national vulnerability. Discussion by Edward Foley, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Kevin Johnson. Moderated by Pam Fessler.
