Mainstream media is the biggest amplifier of White House disinformation | MIT Technology Review

Mainstream media is the biggest amplifier of White House disinformation | MIT Technology Review: The president is running a disinformation campaign, and too many people won’t call it what it is. “The simplest disinformation is explicitly false or misleading information disseminated for political ends,” says Yochai Benkler, a Harvard law professor who led a team that recently dissected the way disinformation is amplified.  Take President Trump’s claim that voting by…