Tricking the Trolls: A Look at the Digital Future
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A startup builds automated detection that extracts and ranks controversial narratives by threat using linguistic classifiers and identifies key actors; an investigation finds a marketing firm running Marco267 plus hundreds of fake accounts, paid ads and sham news sites; research counts influence campaigns in 70 countries (28 in 2017, 48 in 2018, 70 in 2019); recommended actions: open platform data, fund national disinformation units, invest in digital literacy and alternative platform design, and pressure big tech to act.
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