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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Disinformation Craze

i think it might sound counter intuitive to some people to say thatw a big tete company like facebook would readily embrace the idea that disimpo is a major em what does a company like face books stand tagain here? Why are they selling this so hard? Because it seems like this panic around disimpo has put a lot of pressure on them and drawn a lot of attention to their role. And i started to wonder why. You know, from a public relation's perspective, it makes good sense. But also i started to think about the nature of the claim itself, that people being exposed to bad information are lie necessarily convinced by that information. And then I cand have had

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