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MSNBC’s Todd: We’ve Seen How Social Media Can Manipulate People’s Opinion with Russian Disinformation and QAnon

‘What’s happening on social media is the equivalent of using the same pipes for your drinking water and the sewer system’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

TODD: "85 percent of Americans say social media makes it easier to manipulate people with misinformation. We’ve seen it from Russian efforts to influence the presidential election, to QAnon. In fact, one 2019 report tracking a dummy social media account set up to represent an anonymous conservative mother in North Carolina found that Facebook’s recommendation algorithms led her to QAnon in less than a week. And then there’s the thriving anti-vaccine groups that the President himself called out last year."

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