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Créditos de la imagen: Kelly Weill
Obras de Kelly Weill
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, USA
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
- Organizaciones
- The Daily Beast
- Agente
- Dan Mandel
- Biografía breve
- Kelly Weill is a journalist at the Daily Beast, where she covers extremism, disinformation, and the internet. As a leading media voice on the role of online conspiracy theories in current affairs, she has discussed Flat Earth and other digital fringes on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, Al Jazeera, and other national and international news outlets. She lives in New York. [from Off the Edge, 2022]
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- Popularidad
- #155,342
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 7
Equal parts fascinating, depressing and infuriating, this book feels important in that it attempts to help us understand how people fall down the rabbit hole (a phrase used frequently by flat-earth interviewees) of conspiracy theories. That said, I'm not sure I'm much closer to understanding, from a psychological standpoint, how an otherwise intelligent person could deny not only what countless scientists who dedicate their entire lives to studying and researching conclude, with evidence, but also observations they can make (and personally have made) using their very own senses. It's heartening to learn that YouTube and other social media have modified their algorithms from directing maximum traffic to conspiracy channels, but it is clearly too late for a lot of folks out there. The cynic in me also can't help but wonder how many of the guys cashing in (merch, conferences, fundraising, etc.) on someone else's susceptibility to conspiracy theories actually believe themselves in what they are peddling. Wilbur Voliva sounds creepily and unsettlingly like Trump in speech, mannerisms and actions.… (más)