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News use across social media platforms in 2020: a survey of Musk’s tweet is becoming a sewer of misinformation on Twitter in 2020

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Why social media is hurting democracy? A comment on the paper “Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation” by A. Guess and A. M. et al

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Social Media Democracy: The Challenges of Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement in Online Information Retrieval and Consumption, Revisited

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Facebook, Facebook’s Recommender System and Cybercrime: Analysis and Detection of DeepFake Videos in the Wild

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Effects of Televised Campaigning Advertisements on Political Preferences in the Age of Corruption: Results from a Field Experiment

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What if Facebook is the real “silent majority”? Comment on “Understanding the harms of online misinformation”, J. Comput., 25, 402 – 426 (2020)

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K. Rogers’s Theorem on Facebook’s Algorithm, Some Ideas on How to Fix It [Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation]

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Facebook Removed News Feed Algorithm In An Experiment Then It GAVEUP 25c8cb0a35a3

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