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Vote 2020: Democracy in the Age of Disinformation Ashanti Tate
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The coming election will be the most consequential not just of your lifetime, but your parents’ and perhaps even your grandparents'. At the same time, it has never been harder to determine what information we can trust. Much of what circulates on social media is clickbait at best, outright propaganda at worst. How can we determine what’s real news and what’s not? In this podcast, Justin Ritzinger, residential faculty in Mahoney, talks about all this and more with political scientist Joe Uscinski. Afterward, Albany Muria, FYF and president of Get Out the Vote at UM, answers UM students question
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Vote 2020: Democracy in the Age of Disinformation
The coming election will be the most consequential not just of your lifetime, but your parents’ and perhaps even your grandparents'. At the same time, it has never been harder to determine what information we can trust. Much of what circulates on social media is clickbait at best, outright propaganda at worst. How can we determine what’s real news and what’s not? In this podcast, Justin Ritzinger, residential faculty in Mahoney, talks about all this and more with political scientist Joe Uscinski. Afterward, Albany Muria, FYF and president of Get Out the Vote at UM, answers UM students questions about how to vote in November.