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Do You Think That Russia Won the Election by Meddling in Fasburg?
The disinformation narrative helps everyone on all sides of it. It gives powerful elites, as we call them, sort of like a buggy man, excuse. And they don't have to examine their own behaviour or policies. I mean, i guess one of the messages i took away from this beaces that maybe the problems that people are getting so exercised about are not so real after all. A study concluded that if one fake news article were about as persuasive as one t v campaign ad,. The fake news and art would have changed vote shares by an amount on the order of hundredths of a percentage point. That is much smaller than trump's margin of victory in the pivotal states on which the outcome
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