Last year’s The Atlantic article stated the following, “YES, SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY IS UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY.” The article went on further to state, “Social media has changed life in America in a thousand ways, and nearly two out of three Americans now believe that these changes are for the worse. But academic researchers have not yet reached a consensus that social media is harmful. That’s been a boon to social-media companies such as Meta, which argues, as did tobacco companies, that the science is not settled.”
On tonight’s Soul Lounge Primetime we’ll discuss social media and how people get their news; also how we now have a Republican Party still dominated by Trump and his allies, where believers in election fraud fantasies are working across the country to seize control over the nuts and bolts of election administrations (so-called “election subversion”). These post-2020 developments are combining with deep-seated anti-democratic impulses in the GOP to put us on a path toward stolen elections and a system rigged in the GOP’s favor.
Please join DJ LeRoy and The Night Watchman, as tonight’s guests will be: Ester R. Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and Director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University; Dr. Basil Smikle, Jr., Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Public Policy Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College; Wallace Ford, II, Professor of Public Administration at Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York; and James J. Archer, Senior Policy Analyst for the New York City Office of the Mayor.
Curtis Archer & Bob Poncé
Producers and Co-hosts
Soul Lounge Primetime
WHCR 90.3 FM - The Voice of Harlem
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