Network Propaganda Quotes

“When a solidly conservative party is taken over by its most extreme wing in a campaign that includes attacks that are no less vicious when aimed at that conservative party’s mainstream pillars than they are at the opposition party, we think “radicalization” is an objectively appropriate term.”
― Yochai Benkler, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

“to speak of “polarization” is to assume symmetry. No fact emerges more clearly from our analysis of how four million political stories were linked, tweeted, and shared over a three-year period than that there is no symmetry in the architecture and dynamics of communications within the right-wing media ecosystem and outside of it.”
― Yochai Benkler, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

“the influence in the right-wing media ecosystem, whether judged by hyperlinks, Twitter sharing, or Facebook sharing, is both highly skewed to the far right and highly insulated from other segments of the network, from center-right (which is nearly nonexistent) through the far”
― Yochai Benkler, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics