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Facebook's algorithms fueled massive foreign propaganda campaigns during the 2020 election – here's how algorithms can manipulate you

  • Written by Filippo Menczer, Luddy Distinguished Professor of Informatics and Computer Science, Indiana University
imageFacebook has known that its algorithms enable trolls to spread propoganda.STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images

An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms – the rules its computers follow in deciding the content that you see – enabled disinformation campaigns based in Eastern Europe to reach nearly half...

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