Right now, there is a flood of disinformation being propagated via social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to convince the reader that something is factual when it is not. Every day, a casual user of social media will be exposed to disinformation meant to convince the
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reader of something or steer the narrative in a specific direction. Often these posts contain logical fallacies that are used in a strategic fashion to generate outrage or invoke a strong emotional response from the reader. It is happening right now and it is increasing in scale.
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Cambridge Analytica set the blueprint to follow after the Trump/Brexit success