Date: Saturday, July 27, 2024
Time: 2pm PST/9pm UTC
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Episode 6 Description:
This episode we will be diving in the eerie similarities of events separated by many miles and years.
You may be familiar with the information that Donald Trump inspired many copycats over the world, but can he also be inspired by events elsewhere?
Perhaps you are still unfamiliar with how the far right creates well connected networks of political advisors and allies to bolster its campaign strategies?
Come join our conversation and learn a little bit about this strange pattern of political extremism and far right electoral appropriation of the media structures in its favor.
Representing Aaron Swartz Institute in Brazil, André Sobral is a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab in the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy.
As a sociologist specialized in the effects of technology over society, he has dedicated his career to the investigation of political applications of computers and social media platforms.
