A scholar asks, 'Can democracy survive the Internet?' - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Stanford University
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has written about this in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Democracy in an article with a title that sums up his concerns: “Can Democracy Survive the Internet?”
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Persily argues that the 2016 campaign broke down previously established rules and distinctions “between insiders and outsiders, earned media and advertising, media and non-media, legacy media and new media, news and entertainment and even foreign and domestic sources of campaign communication.”
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