“It has been fascinating for me to watch my story go through the looking glass of social media. The story itself has vanished, replaced by a digital mash-up of slurs and invective, supported by stray phrases that have been mechanically tweezered from different texts. The issues that Rhodes raises in…”— David Samuels, nytimes.comTagged: Social Media, Passion Media, Illusion of Facts Will Suffice
“Rhodes readily admitted to me that the work he does is a potentially dangerous distortion of democracy, but he also felt that it had become a necessary evil, caused by the fracturing of the 20th-century mass audience and the decline of the American press. He expressed a deep personal hopelessness ab…”— David Samuels, nytimes.comTagged: Democracy, The Great Reversal, Rational Discussion, Partisanship, Media Control