Apr 27, 2023 05:42 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023...ement.html
The speech on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status...7349578753
EXCERPTS: [...] Pasha Dashtgard, the director of research for American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab, is not upset to see Carlson go...
[...] But as someone who spends much of his time “on all of the worst parts of internet,” he too is skeptical of how much this moment will ultimately mean: “There’s this kind of mutual reinforcing thing—Tucker Carlson is bad and is doing harm, but also, there is clearly a market for that kind of rhetoric...
[...] The liberal watchdog group Media Matters, which has tirelessly chronicled Carlson’s descent on Fox, is also reluctant to celebrate. Madeline Peltz, its deputy director of rapid response, told me Carlson was the “main conduit” between internet conspiracies and mainstream politics. “He invented a bridge between 4chan and 8chan and the fringes of the internet and mainstream conservative media institutions like Fox News,” she said.
Peltz watched Carlson every night for years, and noticed early on how theories that originated on the online fringes were repeated by the primetime host, particularly white supremacist ones. She expects that to continue...
[...] Meanwhile, the audience Carlson helped coax out of the woodwork remains. Dashtgard, of American University, said there is not much that would bring that group back to reality. “Deradicalization is a really hard thing to do. And it’s not scalable. I might be able to like counsel somebody over many years to change their worldview, to change their ideology. But it takes a lot of time and resources, and it takes a willingness on the part of the person to de-radicalize...” he said... (MORE - missing details)
The speech on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status...7349578753
EXCERPTS: [...] Pasha Dashtgard, the director of research for American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab, is not upset to see Carlson go...
[...] But as someone who spends much of his time “on all of the worst parts of internet,” he too is skeptical of how much this moment will ultimately mean: “There’s this kind of mutual reinforcing thing—Tucker Carlson is bad and is doing harm, but also, there is clearly a market for that kind of rhetoric...
[...] The liberal watchdog group Media Matters, which has tirelessly chronicled Carlson’s descent on Fox, is also reluctant to celebrate. Madeline Peltz, its deputy director of rapid response, told me Carlson was the “main conduit” between internet conspiracies and mainstream politics. “He invented a bridge between 4chan and 8chan and the fringes of the internet and mainstream conservative media institutions like Fox News,” she said.
Peltz watched Carlson every night for years, and noticed early on how theories that originated on the online fringes were repeated by the primetime host, particularly white supremacist ones. She expects that to continue...
[...] Meanwhile, the audience Carlson helped coax out of the woodwork remains. Dashtgard, of American University, said there is not much that would bring that group back to reality. “Deradicalization is a really hard thing to do. And it’s not scalable. I might be able to like counsel somebody over many years to change their worldview, to change their ideology. But it takes a lot of time and resources, and it takes a willingness on the part of the person to de-radicalize...” he said... (MORE - missing details)