256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
You Are Not So Smart
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The Pros and Cons of Social Media Posts
The idea that rises to the fore and becomes the basically marquee intelligence effort of Russia towards American democracy in the mid 2010s was we are going to signal jam the American discourse with a bunch of social media posts. And it seemed to me what they were trying to do was not just stoak division or get any particular candidate elected. They were trying to encourage in the American people a way of looking at their fellow citizens who disagreed with them, an attitude of contempt and dismissal.
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