The algorithmic weapons aimed at our democracies
The Big Story
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What's the Role of Social Science Researchers in Manipulation?
S i o's role is to examine how people manipulate these systems in order to change, i guess, or control which information we end up nternalizing. We are not looking so much at which information you wind up internalizing - that's actually a really hard thing to understand. But what we is state actors, for example, am we can use china as as one recent example? They will create tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of fake accounts. And then they too will use twitter, right? So maybe they use it sometimes they're creating tweet. Times they're trying to change the flow of the conversation by re tweating some things quite a bit and trick the algorithms into
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