Question 1: What do John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney mean by "dollarocracy"? Do you agree to their evaluation that the current U.S. political system "is not democracy but dollarocracy"? Should the role corporations play in politics be limited or not?
Question 2: In your opinion, should political ads be be considered as an act to exercise freedom of speech or a form of propaganda?
Question 3: According to Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow, fake news is nothing new since there has been disinformation and propaganda campaigns for a long time in the history. In your opinion, in what ways is fake news similar to and different from propaganda campaigns? And what makes the issue with fake news so heatedly discussed in our current age?
Question 4: Can you spot one false fact cited by the candidate in one of the recent presidential debates? Please include the context within which the false fact was cited and a reliable source to show how and why the information cited by the candidate was false.