From the perspective of 2022, Mary Robb and her colleagues look like fortune tellers. Back in 2001 — before 9/11 conspiracy theories, viral memes and QAnon — the educators created a Democracy and Media Literacy ...
Comment on this story Comment Three years ago, TikTok imposed strict rules prohibiting campaign advertising as the video-sharing app tried to avoid the scandals over political content that have long dogged its social media rivals. ...
It’s three weeks until Election Day, and this morning, a deluge of new campaign ads thundered down on TV stations across the country. If you’re a campaign-ad obsessive, each Tuesday in October is like a ...
Fierce opposition to COVID-19 measures is reverberating through Manitoba’s upcoming municipal and school board elections. It’s believed at least a dozen people on ballots in October are vocal critics of pandemic-era restrictions, some of whom ...
Politics has increasingly become a numbers game, with data-driven strategy the centerpiece of modern policymaking and messaging. The proliferation of polls, focus groups, and punditry is a testament to this reality. The ways in which ...
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On Thursday, TikTok started to catch up to its American social media rivals. It exclusively told The Washington Post that it was developing a policy on how it deals with state-controlled media on its platform ...
Bushra Amiwala makes it hard to believe she’s 24. While studying at DePaul University, she made the decision to run for public office in her hometown of Skokie, IL. When she was elected to the ...