Joan Donovan, an award-winning sociologist who founded the Critical Internet Studies Institute, is known for her work studying media manipulation, extremism and disinformation campaigns. We talked to Donovan about how political disinformation has shifted from shadowy social media accounts to an open and brazen strategy.
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You’re expected to swallow whatever disinformation is spouted by your “team” while denying even truthful information from the other “team.”