👓 How to Cover Hate — The Disinformation War | Columbia Journalism Review

Read How to Cover Hate — The Disinformation War by Sam Thielman (The Disinformation War)
At UNC Charlotte in North Carolina on Tuesday, April 30, a 22-year-old man allegedly shot six people in his anthropology class with a handgun, wounding four and killing two. Three days earlier, on the last day of Passover, in Poway, California, a 19-year-old man walked into a synagogue with what police described as an “AR-type assault weapon” and now stands accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring another congregant, the rabbi, and an 8-year-old girl.

👓 The case for quarantining extremist ideas | Joan Donovan and Dana Boyd | The Guardian

Read The case for quarantining extremist ideas by Joan Donovan (the Guardian)
When confronted with white supremacists, newspaper editors should consider ‘strategic silence’