Every minute, roughly 350,000 tweets are born, ranging in content from entertaining to informative to pure noise. It’s no surprise that this “tsunami of information,” as Martin Gurri calls it, is leading to confusion and frustration that manifests itself in a breakdown of trust in public institutions. Americans’ trust in their government is more fragile than ever, and the kaleidoscope of realities on social media is undermining what’s left of it.
As everyone from tech companies to the federal government tries to shape this torrent of information, activists are calling for one group in particular to butt out of the conversation altogether: law enforcement. They have even coined a word, “copaganda,” to delegitimize anything being said or posted on social media by someone in uniform.
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