Disinformation and Polarization

So instead of focusing all our energy on how to fight disinformation, mitigate online harms, and combat digital extremism, we need to focus on creating a positive vision of what we want and how to get there.

For the first time there are facts and (in Kellyanne Conway’s notorious phrase) ‘alternative facts’. As facts become fluid they become contestable; the truth becomes (once again) something you assert, not something you prove. It used to be a peculiar characteristic of totalitarian regimes that they made the facts fit their purposes; now it seems th... See more

https://doi.org/10.46468/rsaap.14.2.A1

“El distanciamiento ideológico entre partidos políticos (polarización ideológica) promueve el escepticismo y la desafección democrática entre la ciudadanía (polarización afectiva). La polarización dificulta el consenso político en temas tan relevantes como la convivencia territorial, la inmigración, la igualdad de género o el cambio climático. El r... See more

“Terror can only rule over men who are isolated against each other,” Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.