Lecture | Dale Beran | Trolling, USA: The anime message boards that ushered in the misinformation age

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge and the Global New Right Working Group for a talk by Dale Beran on Monday, March 25th at 5:30 PM. This event will be in a hybrid format.

Dale Beran is a writer and artist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidently Memed Donald Trump into Office (2019, St. Martin’s Press) which The New York Review of Books described as “a wild history that is meticulously and grippingly detailed.” His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Der Freitag, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Pacific Standard, McSweeneys, The Nib, and The Huffington Post among other places. He teaches writing, drawing, and filmmaking at Morgan State University.