Amanpour and Company

August 5, 2019

Kellyanne Conway joins Christiane Amanpour to comment on the mass shootings that happened over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Daniel Benjamin and Rev. William Barber join the program to weigh in on the attacks. Danah Boyd sits down with Hari Sreenivasan to explain how digital media amplifies the spread of false information.

Kellyanne Conway on Trump's Response to Gun Violence

2m 55s

Kellyanne Conway joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss President Trump's response to mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, and whether or not he encourages extremism with language against migrants such as “invasion” and “infestation."

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  • Daniel Benjamin & Rev. William Barber on Domestic Terrorism: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Daniel Benjamin & Rev. William Barber on Domestic Terrorism

    S2019 E2026 - 3m

    Daniel Benjamin was co-ordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department under President Obama and had to wrestle first-hand with the United States' blind spot regarding homegrown racist terror. He joins the program alongside Reverend William Barber, a longtime civil rights activist and Protestant minister who was in El Paso just days before the massacre there.

  • Danah Boyd on the Spread of Conspiracies and Hate Online: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Danah Boyd on the Spread of Conspiracies and Hate Online

    S2019 E2026 - 18m 28s

    Danah Boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft and founder of the research institute “Data & Society,” where she studies how media manipulators may be responsible for mass shootings and other crisis events. She sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to explain how digital media amplifies the spread of false information.

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