Social media partisanship, when juiced by foreign influence campaigns, not only alter the online conversation - they make it impossible to know the "real" senti

Social media partisanship, when juiced by foreign influence campaigns, not only alter the online conversation - they make it impossible to know the "real" sentiment in the country. Too many news media outlets start their daily reporting from "what's trending on twitter", not appreciating the degree to which those trends are being pushed by malicious parties (both foreign and domestic), and in no way represent the real dialogue Americans are having. The FBI has published numerous reports on explicit online influence campaigns carried out by foreign organizations attempting to polarize US domestic online dialogues. ...and they do this be radicalizing the conversations on both sides.