Elections, Democracy, and the Internet

From last week:

General election period

• Access Hollywood
• Then Wikileaks releases emails

Persily article

• "The 2016 election represents the latest chapter in the disintegration of the legacy institutions that had set bounds for U.S. politics in the postwar era.” 
• "Much can be said and will be written about the Trump campaign’s formal data and social-media operation, but the real digital story of the 2016 campaign comes from beyond the campaign organizational chart."

Cambridge Analytica:

Twitter

• Number of Twitter users in the United States
• Trump Twitter Archive
• Trump tweet on African American crime
• Trump retweets neo-Nazi
• Retweet claimed support of an African American family

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