Who Caused the Insurrection?

Jonathan Taplin
3 min readJan 14, 2021
Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Wojcicki, Murdoch, Hannity, Limbaugh, Carlson, Ruddy

America has endured political demagogues before. Joe McCarthy and George Wallace come to mind. But America never had a violent insurrection on the Nation’s Capitol. We need to acknowledge that we are experiencing not just a political crisis, but a communication crisis. There is only one reason why 50 million American’s believed Donald Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen. We have a media system that willingly promulgates falsehood…

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Jonathan Taplin

Director Emeritus, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Producer/Author, “Mean Streets”, “Move Fast & Break Things”. New book, “The Magic Years”, out 3/21.