Lecture: Trolling, USA: The anime message boards that ushered in the misinformation age

The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group will host a talk by Dale Beran on 25 March at 17:30 (UTC−5). The event, in a hybrid format, features Beran, a writer and artist from Baltimore, Maryland, known for his book “It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally […]

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Lecture: Trolling, USA: The anime message boards that ushered in the misinformation age

The Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group will host a talk by Dale Beran on 25 March at 17:30 (UTC−5). The event, in a hybrid format, features Beran, a writer and artist from Baltimore, Maryland, known for his book “It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office.”

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