The controversy over university presidents who gave lawyerly answers in Congress about punishing students who call for genocide reflects the reality of college free speech codes that try to both encourage debate and stop hatred.
We’re in agreement there. My (unsolicited) opinion is three very qualified professionals got railroaded by histrionic idiots in the public and in Congress engaging in performative self-aggrandizing and hypocritical bullshit.
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Thanks for saying so, and you're exactly right: performative. I find it hard to believe that their legal advice didn't include distinguishing first amendment issues from school conduct rules.
Very grateful to receive the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Early Career Award for my research on the visible and invisible mechanisms of information control in authoritarian states
Such awards tend to reinforce the idea of 'individual excellence' in academic research and push collaboration to the background. I'm immensely grateful to my co-authors, collaborators and network.
The best research emerges when we think together #TeamScience
Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
@Podophyllum@CitizenWald@histodons "Jews and Arabs are all really children of the House of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4000 years." The accusation of #colonization is #propaganda and used to #weaponize#hatred#terrorism#historymatters
Populists, autoritarians, nationalists and fascists of the world keep conquering public opinion by sowing the seeds of hatred, anger and fear using brute digital force. We figured out long ago how these not-too-subtle strategies work, and yet it seems we can't do anything to stop them. This is disheartening.
“Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India.”
GIFT LINK: https://wapo.st/3rCji5j #propaganda#polcom@communicationscholars
How We’re Going to Fight PragerU’s Indoctrination of Children
conservative pseudo-educational organization “PragerU” is.
Their kids’ shows are designed to look exactly like any other kids’ show, and their videos are full of charts and data. They know what they’re doing.
We’ve produced a booklet called A Student’s Guide to #Resisting#PragerU#Propaganda. it offers a basic introduction to critical thinking and shows students how to analyze and debunk PragerU’s lies.
NYT a WMD Neocon Stooge Mia Culpa Moment re: Militarized AI--YES!
Opinion page, but too little context for a CEO piece (of...) so self-servingly using a popular film to hype for Palantir, a company that benefits like no other from DoD use of AI & the militarization of AI!
@yogthos This text uses several manipulative techniques:
Biased language: The phrases "media hysteria", "alleged Russian atrocities", "rampages by Israeli troops and settlers" all communicate the author's perspective or bias right off the bat, rather than presenting facts objectively. The strong language manipulates the reader's empathy and emotions.
US media covers up Israeli war crimes in Jenin (www.wsws.org)