Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election
Journal of economic Perspectives Volume 31, Number 2 Spring 2017 Pages 211 236American democracy has been repeatedly buffeted by changes in Media tech-nology. In the 19th century, cheap newsprint and improved presses allowed partisan newspapers to expand their reach dramatically. Many have argued that the effectiveness of the press as a check on power was significantly compro-mised as a result (for example, Kaplan 2002). In the 20th century, as radio and then television became dominant, observers worried that these new platforms would reduce substantive policy debates to sound bites, privilege charismatic or telegenic candidates over those who might have more ability to lead but are less polished, and concentrate power in the hands of a few large corporations (Lang and Lang 2002)
literatures in economics, psychology, political science, and computer science. See Flynn, Nyhan, and Reifler (2017) for a recent overview of political misperceptions. In addition to the articles we cite below, there are large literatures on how new infor - mation affects political beliefs (for example, Berinsky 2017; DiFonzo and Bordia
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