This article discusses how social media is manipulate to direct coordinated attacks on people and institutions, and suggests that news managers haven't sufficiently recognized this reality. News managers, writes Charlie Warzel, believe they can still report on issues objectively, without becoming part of the conflict, not realizing how their coverage is weaponized and used in different contexts. And this is why, for example, they fail to defend their staff when they're caught up in Twitter campaigns. I think there are lessons here for educational institutions here as well. We need to understand what we teach and how we teach it not just within the context of individual subjects or lessons, but within the wider context of social and political change, not with the intent of 'avoiding controversy', but rather, of more intentional engagement.
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