Zachary Davis
Ministry of Ideas
Virtually Violent
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Virtually Violent

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "violent" could jeopardize the future of disruptive protests designed to protest those same communities.

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable communities have been hit especially hard by disruptive online attacks. But calling these attacks "violent" could jeopardize the future of disruptive protests designed to protest those same communities.

Guests: 

  • Erica Chenoweth, professor of human rights and international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and author of Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs To Know.

  • Dr. Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

  • Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.

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