Blame Fox, not Facebook, for fake news

Nov 6, 2018

Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse Ethics and Governance of AI

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

"The highly asymmetric pattern of media ecosystems we observe on the right and the left, despite the fact that Facebook and Twitter usage is roughly similar on both sides, requires that we look elsewhere for what is causing the difference," says Yochai Benkler in this interview with the Washington Post's Henry Farrell.

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