Reposted by Young Mie Kim
Research showed that political disinformation on social media had negligible effects, but I always wondered if such tiny effects, when targeting battleground states, could influence close elections. A new paper analyzing voter-suppression ads shows this was the case in 2016:
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Targeted digital voter suppression efforts likely decrease voter turnout | PNAS
In light of continued foreign interference in the US presidential elections, where
undisclosed digital voter suppression advertising has been deplo...
