Russian misinformation on social media had no influence on the 2016 election.
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The Russian misinformation propaganda is more effective for their own citizens.
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Have you heard of the Twitter Files, regarding the 2020 election? It's a good read.
Also, maybe Mark Zuckerberg should be in your thread (also for 2020).
And really - what are we going to DO about misinformation? 🤔 It's a terrible thing ...
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Though Russian propaganda didn't impact the '16 election, that intended for such exerted outsized effects on later US politics. Many leftists & AntiTrumpists were infected with conspiracy theories that convinced them their opponents were traitors & stooges, worsening polarization
1) The paper explicitly says that it's not addressing that question
2) The paper takes an absurdly narrow look at one particular vector of influence using very crude measures of impact,
rules out a hypothesis no one credible was pushing,
& went chasing headlines
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They knew their ads weren't working, hence the requests and threats they made at social media companies.
I appreciate the thesis proposal and academic approach. Some “journalists” should be held to this standard
This position is absurd. It is obvious they had an influence, the question is to what degree.
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