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How Social Media Undermines Democracy: Big lies vs. big lawsuits: why Dominion Voting is sunning Fox News and a host of Trump allies

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The Role of Social Media Exposure to Violent Extremism on Political Issues: The Case of Russia and the U.S.

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Why we don’t click: interrogating the relationship between viewing and clicking in social media contexts by exploring the ‘non-click’

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Facebook’s algorithm is broken, and we’ve got to fix it, but we’re still unsure of what we can do about it

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Facebook Didn’t Remove News Feed In An Experiment Then It GAVEUP 25c8cb0a35a3

The news feed has been removed in an experiment by Facebook. Then it gave up. OneZero, https://onezero.medium.com/facebook-removed-the-news-feed-algorithm-in-an-experiment-then-it-gave-up-25c8cb0a35a3 (25 October 2021).

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