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- TNW Answers: What we learned from online propaganda expert, Samuel Woolley
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Thursday 6 February 2020
TNW Answers is a live Q&A platform where we invite interesting people in tech who are much smarter than us to answer questions from TNW readers and editors for an hour. Social media, a tool created to guard freedom of speech and democracy, has increasingly been used in more sinister ways. From its role in amplifying political disinformation in elections, to inciting online violence, and lowering the levels of trust in media — Facebook isn’t just a space to share “what’s on your mind,” and you’d be naive to believe so. As technology advances, it’s becoming increasingly hard to detect fake news…
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