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SOURCE: Vice
1/12/2021
Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol
Before it was removed from Amazon Web Services, researchers archived a significant number of the posts on Parler, the network favored by many on the far right. That data could prove useful in figuring out what happened around and inside the Capitol on January 6.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/3/2021
‘Cancel Culture’ is Not the Preserve of the Left. Just Ask Our Historians
by David Olusoga
British media has enthusiastically demonized historians whose work challenges myths of national glory by focusing on slavery and colonialism.
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SOURCE: Governing
12/21/2020
Has Twitter Changed How History Will See This Era?
Carole McGranahan, a professor of history and anthropology, says that social media need to be taken seriously as sources of insight into the actions of prominent and anonymous people alike, and need to be preserved as sources.
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SOURCE: N+1
12/12/2020
We Live in a Society
by Gabriel Winant
Despite lamentations that social media have replaced face-to-face social life, those media platforms are increasingly important as sites of human contact and interaction. Anyone seeking political change must recognize this power and organize social networks to supplant it.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/15/2020
Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
Facebook isn't exactly like they hypothetical "Doomsday Machine" theorized by Cold War nuclear deterrence experts. But its vast scope and capacity to distribute misinformation faster than in can be detected and corrected mean that lessons from the philosophy of nuclear annihilation are apt for understandign the danger of the social media giants.
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SOURCE: Newsday
11/29/2020
Social Media 'Misinformation' Endangers Democracy, Historians Say
Historians Peniel Joseph and Karl Jacoby, along with media scholar Howard Schnieder, assess the way that strategic misinformation on social media has exploited racial divisions in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results.
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SOURCE: Academe Blog
10/13/2020
Demon vs. Monster: The Vice-Presidential Debate and an Historian’s Harassment
by Hank Reichman
Experience suggests that when institutions issue these kinds of condemnatory statements the harassers are only encouraged to push harder, says Hank Reichman, Chair of the American Association of Univrersity Professors Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
9/23/2020
Trump’s TikTok Deal Shows how Trade with China is Woven into the American DNA
by Sean Fraga
"Americans’ beliefs about the value of transpacific trade informed every aspect of the transcontinental railroads. This history shows how deeply trade with China is woven into the American fabric and suggests President Trump’s hostility toward China is unlikely to outlast his administration."
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
9/20/2020
Trump Wants $5 Billion From TikTok Deal for History Project
This announcement continues a Trump tradition of claiming other nations will pay for domestic culture war projects.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
8/27/2020
Lara Trump Seems To Have Gotten Her Abraham Lincoln Quote From A Meme — And It’s Wrong
Lincoln may have once shared the sentiment, just not the actual words.
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SOURCE: Washingtonian
8/24/2020
Are Your Tweets Historic? Meet the Librarians Who Decide.
The Library of Congress's Web Department works to archive tweets and ephemeral websites that are significant to today's society so they are not lost to history.
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SOURCE: Forward
8/18/2020
How Can Youtube and Reddit Successfully Fight Holocaust Denial, But Not Facebook?
A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found 36 Facebook groups specifically dedicated to Holocaust denial.
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SOURCE: Business Insider
7/31/2020
Twitter Has Shut Down Former KKK Leader David Duke's Account
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the suspension saying the account has been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct."
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7/19/2020
A Historian's Reflections on American Dissent
by Ralph Young
At a time like this one longs for a Gandhi or a King to come along and show us the way. Or a Lincoln or a Roosevelt who took up the challenge of leading the United States through existential crises. But I don't see that happening. Not in 2020. Not on the federal level.
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SOURCE: Lead Stories
4/27/2020
Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve
There is no evidence that both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated because they wanted to destroy the Federal Reserve system (which also did not exist in Lincoln's day).
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
4/13/2020
If You Charge Facts With Bias, Historians Are Guilty
by John Broich
How should historians behave in response to an active movement aiming to paint them as partisans seeking points in a zero-sum game?
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11/12/2019
The key to defeating the far right’s online hate
by Michelle Kelley
“History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/5/19
Teens are making historical events go viral on TikTok
The most powerful videos use human beings to personify world actors – such as countries – in major historical events.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
7/3/2019
‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map
The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.
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SOURCE: Slate
6/19/19
Historians Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt ask: Has Technology Made Us Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
by Rebecca Onion
A new book takes a historical look at how tech affects our collective mental state—and somehow, it’s not tedious.
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