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Carolyn Schmitt

@carolynschmitt.bsky.social

UNC Grad Student | Knight-CITAP Fellow | Go Hoos!

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Parker Bach@parkerbach.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Public scholarship alert! 🚨 Have you seen prediction markets in the news? In the 18 months since prediction markets on elections were legalized in the U.S., it seems like Polymarket and Kalshi can't stop making news and making money.

How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets

While media outlets are signing deals with Polymarket and Kalshi for their insights into the wisdom of crowds, gamblers are pouncing on opportunities to wager on geopolitics and celebrity weddings.

theconversation.com

Siva@sivav.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’ll say it straight: It is unbecoming, undignified, cowardly, and shameful for a institution as revered and respected as the University of Virginia to grant an audience in 2025 to those who are committed to destroying science, free thought, human rights, and the rule of law.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 10mo ago

The University of Virginia said it would not sign the Trump administration’s proposed offer of priority access for federal funding, the fifth university to turn down the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

University of Virginia turns down Trump deal for priority federal funding

The rejection comes after a tumultuous summer at the University of Virginia during which President James E. Ryan resigned amid DOJ pressure over DEI investigations.

washingtonpost.com

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.

Shannon McGregor, PhD@shannimcg.bsky.social · 2y ago

We studied this shift, which started during the first Trump administration. Far-right outlets became legitimized thru GOP officials granting access, as well as mainstream news coverage of these outlets. #openaccess here journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

journals.sagepub.com

Philip Mai@philipmai.com · 2y ago

The shift to the NY Post, OANN & Breitbart is emblematic of a broader realignment in public perception and political influence, signalling how institutions of authority (and public spaces) choose to construct reality for their audiences.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Jess Maddox@jessmaddox.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now that I've slept on it, let's discuss the TikTok ban. The message popping up on everyone's app is propaganda, plain and simple. And having propaganda involved in something as precarious at the creator economy is very, very dangerous.

Francesca Tripodi@ftripodi.bsky.social · 2y ago

After the first election of Trump I conducted a yearlong ethnographic study of Trump supporters. I wanted to understand how they see the world and how information systems shaped their understanding of truth. I walked away with seven core findings

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · 2y ago

"Moving forward, we should not be concerned with isolated incorrect facts, but with the deeply-rooted stories that circulate at all levels of culture and shape our points of view," @alicetiara.bsky.social says.

The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy

"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental…

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.

nytimes.com