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34. Ibid.
35. Athey, “BuzzFeed’s Trump Story.”
36. Amber Athey, “The Definitive List of Media Screw-Ups on the Trump-Russia Story,” Daily Caller, May 3, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/03/media-failure-russia-trump-story/.
37. Chuck Ross, “CNN Botches Major ‘Bombshell’ Alleging Contacts between Don Jr. and WikiLeaks,” Daily Caller, December 8, 2017, https://dailycaller.com/2017/12/08/cnn-botches-major-bombshell-alleging-contacts-between-don-jr-and-wikileaks/.
38. Chuck Ross, “Mueller’s Office Disputes BuzzFeed’s Report,” Daily Caller, January 18, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/muellers-office-disputes-buzzfeeds-report/.
39. Amber Athey, “CNN and MSNBC Repeatedly Floated Impeachment over Disputed BuzzFeed Report,” Daily Caller, January 18, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/18/cnn-msnbc-impeach-trump-buzzfeed-mueller/.
40. Kieran Corcoran, “The Author of the Explosive New Trump Book Says He Can’t Be Sure if Parts of It Are True,” Business Insider, January 5, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-wolff-note-says-he-doesnt-know-if-trump-book-is-all-true-2018-1.
41. Marty Steinberg, “Miachel Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fur’: Some of the Facts Just Don’t Stack Up,” CNBC, January 7, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/07/michael-wolffs-fire-and-fury-some-of-the-facts-just-dont-stack-up.html.
42. “Trump: Bannon Has ‘Lost His Mind,’ Has No Influence in White House; Book: Bannon Calls Trump Tower Meeting ‘Treasonous,’ ” CNN Newsroom, aired January 3, 2018, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/03/cnr.05.html.
43. “New Book Raises Questions on Trump’s Mindset; December Jobs Report Posted 148,000; The Trump Russia Investigation,” CNN Newsroom, aired on January 5, 2018, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/05/nday.06.html.
44. Peter Hasson, “Matt Drudge Slams Michael Wolff’s ‘Fabricated Bull****t’—Trump in ‘Fine Form,’ ” Daily Caller, January 23, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/23/matt-drudge-donald-trump-michael-wolff-fire-and-fury/.
45. “Explosive book Outlines Bannon-Kushner Rivalry,” CNN Newsroom, aired on January 5, 2018, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1801/05/nday.02.html.
46. A. J. Katz, “2018 Ratings: MSNBC Was the Only Top 25 Cable Network To Post Double-Digit Audience Growth,” AdWeek.com, January 2, 2019, https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2018-ratings-msnbc-was-the-only-top-25-cable-network-to-post-double-digit-audience-growth/387956.
47. Julia Nista, “Scarborough Says Wolff’s Claims about Trump in New Book ‘Ring True,’ ” Daily Caller, January 4, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/04/scarborough-says-wolffs-claim-about-trump-in-new-book-ring-true/.
48. David Rutz, “Media is Cool with Fake but Accurate ‘Fire and Fury,’ ” Free Beacon, January 9, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/politics/media-cool-fake-accurate-fire-fury/.
49. Ibid.
Chapter Nine: What Comes Next
1. Von Georg Mascolo and Britta von der Heide, “1200 Frauen Wurden Opfer von Silvester-Gewalt,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 10, 2016, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/uebergriffe-in-koeln-frauen-wurden-opfer-von-silvester-gewalt-1.3072064.
2. Kirchick, James. The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age, Kindle Edition, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), Kindle locations 2229–2235.
3. Philip Oltermann and Pádraig Collins, “Two Members of Germany’s Far-Right Party Investigated by State Prosecutor,” The Guardian, January 2, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/02/german-far-right-mp-investigated-anti-muslim-social-media-posts.
4. Chase Winter, “AfD Politician ‘Censored’ under New German Hate Speech Law for Anti-Muslim Tweet,” DW.com, January 2, 2018, https://www.dw.com/en/afd-politician-censored-under-new-german-hate-speech-law-for-anti-muslim-tweet/a-41992679.
5. Rick Noack, “Leaked Document Says 2,000 Men Allegedly Assaulted 1,200 German Women on New Year’s Eve,” Washington Post, July 10, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10/leaked-document-says-2000-men-allegedly-assaulted-1200-german-women-on-new-years-eve/?noredirect=on.
6. Riham Alkoussa, “Violent Crime Rises in Germany and Is Attributed to Refugees,” Reuters, January 3, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-crime/violent-crime-rises-in-germany-and-is-attributed-to-refugees-idUSKBN1ES16J.
7. David Martin, “German Satire Magazine Titanic back on Twitter Following ‘Hate Speech’ Ban,” DW.com, January 6, 2018, https://www.dw.com/en/german-satire-magazine-titanic-back-on-twitter-following-hate-speech-ban/a-42046485
8. Justin Tallis, “German ‘Facebook Law’ Creates Risk of Over-Blocking,” Reporters without Borders for Freedom of Information, July 10, 2017, https://rsf.org/en/news/german-facebook-law-creates-risk-over-blocking.
9. Jonah Shepp, “Angela Merkel Won Reelection, but Is She Still the Leader of the Free World,” Intelligencer, September 25, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/09/is-angela-merkel-still-the-leader-of-the-free-world.html?gtm=top>m=top.
10. Ewan Palmer, “YouTuber Count Dankula Who Taught Dog Nazi Salute Faces Jail for Hate Crime,” Newsweek, March, 20, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/youtuber-count-dankula-who-taught-dog-nazi-salute-faces-jail-hate-crime-853470.
11. “PF v. Mark Meechan,” Judgements and Sentences, Judiciary of Scotland, April 23, 2018, http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/1962/PF-v-Mark-Meechan.
12. Ibid.
13. “Woman Guilty of ‘Racist’ Snap Dogg Rap Lyric Instagram Post,” BBC, April 19, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921.
14. “Teenage Sentenced for Racist Instagram Post,” News, Crown Prosecution Service, April 20, 2018, https://www.cps.gov.uk/mersey-cheshire/news/teenager-sentenced-racist-instagram-post.
15. “Woman Guilty of ‘Racist’ Snap Dogg Rap Lyric Instagram Post,” BBC, April 19, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921.
16. “Home Secretary Announces New National Online Hate Crime Hub,” Press Release, Home Office, October 8, 2017, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-secretary-announces-new-national-online-hate-crime-hub.
17. Charlie Parker, “Police Arresting Nine People a Day in Fight against Web Trolls,” The Times, October 12, 2017 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-people-a-day-in-fight-against-web-trolls-b8nkpgp2d.
18. Ibid.
19. South Yorkshire Police (@syptweet), “In Addition to Reporting Hate Crime, Please Report Non-Crime Hate Incidents, Which Can Include Things Like Offensive or Insulting Comments, online, in Person,” Twitter post, September 9, 2018, https://twitter.com/syptweet/status/1038891067381350401.
20. Martin Beckford, “Mother, 38, Is Arrested in Front of Her Children and Locked in a Cell for Seven HOURS after Calling a Transgender Woman a Man on Twitter,” Daily Mail, February 10, 2019, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html.
21. Lucy Bannerman, “Father Ted Writer Graham Linehan Says the Trans Activist Stephanie Hayden Is Dangerous Troll,” The Times, September 29, 2018, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/father-ted-writer-graham-linehan-says-the-trans-activist-stephanie-hayden-is-dangerous-troll-6pwrg9p68.
22. Martin Beckford, “Mother, 38, Is Arrested in Front of Her Children.”
23. Ibid.
24. “Man Complains of ‘Orwellian Police’ after Tweet Investigation,” BBC, January 25, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-47005937.
25. James Kirkup, “Why Are the Police Stopping a 74-Year-Old Tweeting about Transgenderism?” Coffee House, The Spectator, February 5, 2019, https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/02/why-are-the-police-stopping-a-74-year-old-tweeting-about-transgenderism/.
26. Margaret Nelson, “Death Doesn’t Misgender. You Die as You Were Born,” Dead Interesting Blog, January 19, 2018, https://deadinteresting.blogspot.com/2018/01/death-doesnt-misgender-you-die-as-you.html.
27. Lucy Powell, “Why I Am Seeking To Stamp Our Online E
cho Chambers of Hate,” The Guardian, September 10, 2018, https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2018/sep/10/online-echo-chambers-hate-facebook-bill.
28. Mark Zuckerberg (@Mark Zuckerberg), “I Want To Share Some Thoughts on Facebook and the Election. Our Goal Is To Give Every Person a Voice. We Believe Deeply in People. Assuming That People Understand What Is Important in Their Lives,” Facebook post, November 12, 2016, https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10103253901916271.
29. Sarah Jeong, “Nigel Farage Thinks Facebook Is Censoring Conservatives,” The Verge, May 22, 2018, https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17380972/nigel-farage-facebook-censoring-conservative-brexit-european-parliament-zuckerberg.
30. Brian Love and Jean-Baptiste Vey, “France To Get Tougher on Social Media Hate Speech-PM,” Reuters, March 19, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/france-racism-socialmedia/france-to-get-tougher-on-social-media-hate-speech-pm-idUSL8N1R14G0.
31. Mathieu Rosemain, Michel Rose, Gwénaëlle Barzic, “France To ‘Embed’ Regulators at Facebook To Combat Hate Speech,” Reuters, November 12, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-facebook-macron/france-to-embed-regulators-at-facebook-to-combat-hate-speech-idUSKCN1NH1UK.
32. Mark Scott and Zachary Young, “France and Facebook Announce Partnership against Online Hate Speech,” Politico, November 12, 2018, https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-mark-zuckberg-paris-hate-speech-igf/.
33. Daniel Boffey, “EU Threatens To Crack Down on Facebook over Hate Speech,” The Guardian, April 11, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/11/eu-heavy-sanctions-online-hate-speech-facebook-scandal.
34. “Facebook Is Doing Much Better at Removing Hate Speech, Says EU,” MIT Technology Review, February 4, 2019, https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612878/facebook-is-doing-much-better-at-removing-hate-speech-says-the-eu/.
35. Anna Mitchell and Larry Diamond, “China’s Surveillance State Should Scare Everyone,” The Atlantic, February 2, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/.
36. Echo Huang, “China Is Investigating Its Internet Giants over Failures To Police Content–and Sending a Warning,” Bad Information, Quartz, August 11, 2017, https://qz.com/1051539/china-is-investigating-its-internet-giants-tencent-tcehy-baidu-bidu-sina-weibo-wb-over-failures-to-police-content/.
37. “Tencent WeChat, Sina Weibo, Baidu Post Bar Are Suspected of Violating the ‘Network Security Law’ and Being Investigated,” Cyberspace Administration of China, August 11, 2017, http://www.cac.gov.cn/2017-08/11/c_1121467425.htm.
38. Echo Huang, “China’s Social Media Giants Want Their Users To Help Out with the Crushing Burden of Censorship,” Quartz, January 5, 2018, https://qz.com/1172536/chinas-social-media-giants-tencent-toutiao-weibo-want-their-users-to-help-out-with-censorship/.
39. Zheping Huang, “All the Things You Can—and Can’tDo with Your WeChat Account in China,” Double-Edged Sword, Quartz, December 28, 2017, https://qz.com/1167024/all-the-things-you-can-and-cant-do-with-your-wechat-account-in-china/.
40. Raymond Zhong, “A Saucy App Knows China’s Taste in News. The Censors Are Worried,” New York Times, January 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/business/china-toutiao-censorship.html.
41. Ibid.
42. Ryan Gallagher, “Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China,” The Intercept, October 9, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/10/09/google-china-censored-search-engine/.
43. Ryan Gallagher and Lee Fang, “Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans To Closely Track Search Users in China,” The Intercept, September 21, 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/.
44. Kate Conger, “Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause from Its Code of Conduct,” Gizmodo, May 18, 2018, https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393.
45. Nathan Halverson, “Facebook Knowingly Duped Game-Playing Kids and Their Parents out of Money,” Reveal, Center for Investigative Reporting, January 24, 2019, https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-game-playing-kids-and-their-parents-out-of-money/.
46. Ibid.
47. Allum Bokhari, “Microsoft Teams with Establishment ‘Newsguard’ To Create News Blacklist,” Breitbart, January 23, 2019, https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/23/microsoft-teams-with-establishment-newsguard-to-create-news-blacklist/.
48. Ibid.
49. Adrian Chen, “The Fake-News Fallacy,” New Yorker, August 28, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/the-fake-news-fallacy.
50. Richard Pan, “Senate Bill 1424, Amended Version,” California State Legislature, April 26, 2018, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1424.
51. Richard Pan, “SB 1424,” Senate Rules Committee, August 28, 2018, https://www.scribd.com/document/438477789/201720180SB1424-Senate-Floor-Analyses.
52. Pan, “Senate Bill 1424, Amended Version.”
53. Jimmy Gomez, “Assembly Bill 155, “California State Legislature, January 11, 2017, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB155.
54. Matt Taibbi, “Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship,” Rolling Stone, August 2, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/facebook-censor-alex-jones-705766/.
55. Michael Tomasky, “Democrats, Crack the Whip on Facebook and Don’t Hold Back When You Do It,” Daily Beast, November 15, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/democrats-crack-the-whip-on-facebook-and-dont-hold-back-when-ya-do-it.
56. Nina Jancowicz, “It’s Time To Start Regulating Facebook,” Washington Post, November 15, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/11/15/its-time-to-start-regulating-facebook/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9e98960a1bc2.
Chapter Ten: What to Do
1. Amber Athey, “Daily Caller Editor in Chief Locked Out of Account for Tweeting ‘Learn To Code,’ ” Daily Caller, February 6, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/daily-caller-twitter-locked-learn-to-code/.
2. Associated Press, “Bob Costas Pushes Gun Control on Air,” NFL, ESPN.com, December 3, 2012, http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/8706492/bob-costas-advocates-gun-control-halftime.
Index
A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.
ABC News, 31, 37, 157–58
abortion, 7, 33, 69–71, 81, 110–22, 127, 132
algorithms, 23, 34–37, 45, 51, 68, 70, 72, 87, 168, 170,
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), 130
Atlantic, The, 7, 114, 135
Amazon, 16, 129–31
American Engagement Technologies (AET), 44
American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, 50
Amerige, Brian, 25–26
Antifa, 16, 154
Apple, 16–17, 127, 138–39
Associated Press (AP), 31
Ayers, Bill, 129
Babylon Bee, 133
BBC News, 35, 70, 167
Beirich, Heidi, 127, 143
Besbris, David, 64, 72
“Beto’s Blog,” 97
Black Lives Matter, 24
Blackburn, Marsha, 119–20
Blanchard, Ray, 95–96
Bokhari, Allum, 39, 57, 69, 179–81,
Breitbart, 9, 35, 38, 63–65, 124–25, 174
Brown, Ian, 83
Brown, Jerry, 176
Brown, Michael L., 66,
Bunch, Sonny, 139
Business Insider, 39, 90–91, 153
BuzzFeed, 37, 42, 70, 100, 155–56, 158
Byer, Scott, 63
Carlson, Tucker, 123, 135
Carson, Ben, 19,
128
Carusone, Angelo, 135–36
Center for American Progress, 143, 174
Center for Immigration Studies, 130
“Change the Terms,” 19, 143–44
Chick-fil-A, 5, 83, 126, 134–35
Clinton, Hillary, 9, 15, 28–29
CNN, 5, 32, 34–38, 51, 65, 70–71, 80, 85, 87, 104–5, 133, 136, 147, 152–59
Cohen, Richard, 129
Cologne, Germany, 161–63
Community Guidelines, 68
Cook, Tim, 127
Costolo, Dick, 12
Covington Catholic High School, 71, 104–5, 134, 154
Creators for Change, 75–76
Creepy Line, The, 51
Crowder, Steven, 66, 141,
Crowell, Colin, 84
Cuccinelli, Ken, 87–88
Cretella, Michelle, 68
Cuomo, Chris, 154
Cvet, Mike, 89
Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), 171
Daily Beast, 38
Daily Caller News Foundation, 9, 31, 41, 63–64, 72, 97–98, 100, 155, 174
Damore, James, 16, 59–61
Dannenfelser, Marjorie, 119
de Blasio, Bill, 5
Declaration of Independence, 46–47
DenverGuardian.com, 151
DeSanctis, Alexandra, 114
Dhillon, Harmeet, 62
Dickerson, Mikey, 44, 155
Diwanji, Pavni, 55
Dorsey, Jack, 12–13, 82, 95, 102, 117
Downs, Juniper, 73
Drudge, Matt, 1, 159
Epstein, Robert, 50
Everson, Carolyn, 28
Facebook News, 37–38, 40
FactCheck.org, 31
“Fairness Doctrine,” the, 175
Farrakhan, Louis, 33, 42, 112
“Fb’ers for Political Diversity,” 25–26
Fire and Fury, 158–59
First Amendment, 2, 20, 112, 173, 181
Flynn, Michael, 157
Fondacaro, Nicholas, 97
Fox News, 4, 9, 20, 35, 43, 69, 80, 86, 104, 123–25, 135–36, 153
Gaetz, Matt, 177–78