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Russian Election Interference Effectiveness

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The Internet Research Agency Optimized Their Content for Divisiveness

The ads were targeted to people's interests in, say, African American civil rights. The click-through rate of these ads was super, super high compared like over a magnitude higher than ads generally on the platform. So would it be correct to say the internet research agency was optimizing their content for divisiveness? Yes and no.

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