Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaire owners wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. I may have more on that later.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. The report also includes a detailed analysis of how the media got played on the story of the Clinton Foundation. In this group, Gateway Pundit is in a class of its own, known for “publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.” From all of these perspectives, conservative media is more partisan and more insular than the left….Breitbart emerges as the nexus of conservative media….Seven sources, all from the partisan right or partisan left, receive substantially more attention on social media than links from other media outlets…. On the right, prominent media are highly partisan. Prominent media on the left are well distributed across the center, center-left, and left. They only share items from extremely partisan sites: Conservatives, however, almost literally have no interest in centrist sites. Liberals tend to share items about equally from centrist sites and far-left sites. Generally speaking, however, the big thread that runs through the whole report is the asymmetry of social media. Some of it is stuff we’ve seen before: for example, coverage of Hillary Clinton was massively weighted toward her emails and other “scandals,” while coverage of Trump was weighted toward the issues. “It became clear to me that this one controversy, specifically on fraud related to mail-in ballots, was becoming the major disinformation campaign in the 2020 election, the one that was really potentially threatening voter participation,” Benkler said.The Berkman Klein Center at Harvard has just released a new report of the role of online media in the 2016 election. They moved to studying larger issues after the 2016 election, publishing an analysis of that election in 2018, and started focusing on mail-in voting this summer. The Berkman Klein team began studying information dissemination about a dozen years ago, publishing “on more specific topics, like intellectual property legislation,” according to Benkler. The report found that CNN, the Washington Post, Trump’s Twitter account, NBC, NPR and Politico - among others - played the largest role in spreading information about voter fraud. Consumers of national sources like the New York Times or NPR were less likely to share those worries. The report found that, of the viewers and readers of local media, between 15 to 20 percent believe voter mail-in fraud would be a major problem. “You need to shift your frame towards these very non-sexy, non-tech outlets, given who their audience is and given that they’re really the only remaining persuadable audience,” Benkler said. He also said that the paper ought to make policymakers reconsider their assumptions about so-called “fake news.” They should renew their focus on traditional media sources, such as local television and syndicated articles, since most relatively apolitical voters rely on them, he added. Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler and others analyzed “over fifty-five thousand online media stories, five million tweets, and seventy-five thousand posts on public Facebook pages which garnered millions of engagements.” They found that - contrary to conventional wisdom - social media played a secondary role in spreading disinformation, though they counted Trump’s Twitter account as a media source rather than as a social media account.īenkler said he and the team hope their findings will help assure the legitimacy of this fall’s election. Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center found that unsubstantiated concerns about widespread mail-in voter fraud in the 2020 election are mainly spread by high-ranking Republicans - including Donald Trump - and conventional media, according to a working paper released Oct.
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