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Why do so many people fall for fake profiles online?

  • Written by Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Do you want to be friends with this person?Sasun Bughdaryan

The first step in conducting online propaganda efforts and misinformation campaigns is almost always a fake social media profile. Phony profiles for nonexistent people worm their way into the social networks of real people, where they can spread their falsehoods. But neither social media...

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