What Facebook Did to American Democracy - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-facebook-did/542502
And why it was so hard to see it coming In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline : before the 2016 election, and after. Things we thought we understood—narratives, data, software, news events—have had to be reinterpreted in light of Donald Trump’s surprising win as well as the continuing questions about the role that misinformation and disinformation played in his election. To hear more feature stories, see our full list or get the Audm (...)
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