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> You would have to be a fairly active user to run across deliberate misinformation, generated by offshore troll farms. I think you are missing the point of th

> You would have to be a fairly active user to run across deliberate misinformation, generated by offshore troll farms. I think you are missing the point of this research. The entire point is that 19 of the top 20 Christian pages, for example, are produced by offshore troll farms, and until recently, this was generally not known. So no, you do not need to be a fairly active user, not at all. Many, many casual users came across this because it was incredibly widely shared, and because Facebook's algorithms push such content far and wide.

tylerrobinson 5y ago
> Many, many casual users came across this because it was incredibly widely shared, and because Facebook's algorithms push such content far and wide. That's my take, too. I know exactly the sort of mass-produced garbage content they're talking about, since I see things that my friends interacted with in my Feed. Therefore I am part of the 140 million people who was exposed to the media produced by these operations.