How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters & influencers, disinformation & the Civil War https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/101224_newspaper_revolution_op/how-newspaper-revolution-sparked-protesters-influencers-disinformation-civil-war/
The most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy - the mid-1800s - coincided with a sudden boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers, widespread disinformation and nasty fights over free speech, a landscape that helped bring the Civil War.
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