LWV-Downeast hosts a monthly radio program on democracy in cooperation with WERU FM. This month, we'll talk about how Facebook has transformed our political life. How has it polarized our political identities? How has it become so central to our community and political life? What threats does it pose to democracy? What did the Facebook Papers tell us? It's not just Facebook, is it? What are the possible solutions? Learn more here.
Special Guests:
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Jessica Brandt, policy director for the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
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Judith Rosenbaum, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
This show will be pre-recorded; no listener calls will be taken. Comments and questions may be emailed to news@weru.org with Democracy Forum on the subject line.
WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, streaming at weru.org