“I don’t believe a news organization must be doing something right because people on all sides are angry. But it’s also not a sign that a news organization must be doing something wrong.”
“Frankly, the nation’s media may well be talking and thinking too much about the need for someone to ‘save journalism’ when all of us should be laser-focused on doing the work that may well save democracy.”
“At the time of this writing, it is difficult to avoid the realization that one side of politics — mainly in the U.S. but also elsewhere — appears more threatened by research into misinformation than by the risks to democracy arising from misinformation itself.”
“A keyword-focused ‘close enough, good enough’ approach to white Christian nationalism risks misdiagnosing problems, muddling solutions, and alienating potentially reachable readers.”
“Our interviewees view mainstream news outlets as part of a group of liberal institutions dedicated to making conservatives into pariahs. The misinformation often at the heart of conservative responses to Covid-19 is a symptom, rather than a cause, of this distrust.”
“Suddenly, the stupid stuff on the internet, the scary stuff on the internet, became just so mainstream and important. And that totally should not be.”
Including how research into sports fandom explains Trump supporters’ claims of voter fraud: “One’s degree of team identification is a major predictor for attributing a loss to external forces such as referees and opponents’ cheating, resulting in denial of the outcome.”
Benton, Joshua. "What is The Epoch Times? A vehicle for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, and the culmination of all that Facebook has encouraged." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 26 Oct. 2020. Web. 16 Apr. 2024.
APA
Benton, J. (2020, Oct. 26). What is The Epoch Times? A vehicle for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, and the culmination of all that Facebook has encouraged. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/what-is-the-epoch-times-a-vehicle-for-pro-trump-conspiracy-theories-and-the-culmination-of-all-that-facebook-has-encouraged/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "What is The Epoch Times? A vehicle for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, and the culmination of all that Facebook has encouraged." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 26, 2020. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/what-is-the-epoch-times-a-vehicle-for-pro-trump-conspiracy-theories-and-the-culmination-of-all-that-facebook-has-encouraged/.
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