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On Modern Propaganda
- uoaei 9y agoI submit this in response to the persistent meme that "Russian ads didn't decide the election." I agree that even if they did use ads, that is far from the whole story. I want to bring to light some of the arguments for how social media more broadly can be used as a weapon of propaganda by polarizing everyone who participates, making them more vocal, and viralizing the propagandistic memes that move through society through the vectors of friends and family members, not of insignificant ads per se (though these certainly reinforce the feeling that "others believe what I do so there must be some truth!").