Pattern Matching
What Social Media Companies Have Fixed Since the 2016 Election
And a few things they haven’t
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9 min readOct 31, 2020
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In 2016, everyone from Russian agents to British political consultants to Macedonian teenagers to randos in the American suburbs used social platforms with impunity to spread misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election. Much of it favored Trump…
