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The Importance of Disinformation on the Internet
Facebook COO, Cheryl Sandberg, claimed that the company deleted over 1.3 billion fake accounts in just six months. A few hundred million of them were probably cooked up in the old St. Petersburg office of the Internet Research Agency (IRA) Their job is to spread disinformation and discord online with a phantom RB of puppet accounts and conspiracy theories. But this nihilistic genre of propaganda is incredibly weak when it's confronted with the sincerity of outsiders. That's why I think Alexei Navalny is the most interesting person on the Internet today.
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