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Life Arts    H4'ed 10/20/18

The Poison on Facebook and Twitter Is Still Spreading

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...this stage of the internet’s evolution, content moderation can no longer be reduced to individual postings viewed in isolation and out of context. The problem is systemic, currently manifested in the form of coordinated campaigns both foreign and homegrown...

...But throwing light on the coordinated misinformation campaigns flaring up all around us is a matter that is much bigger than the death of print — it’s essential to democracy...

...none of this is sustainable — and we definitely don’t want to find out what happens when the merry-go-round stops working.

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