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spewing out of Russian-controlled bots was truly

remarkable. These bots and trolls retweeted then-

candidate Trump almost half a million times in

the lead-up to the election. Twitter estimated that

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Foreign actors didn’t rely solely on Twitter, of

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reader, were almost certainly one of them.

These platforms present a unique opportunity,

because the microtargeting ad platforms built by

social media companies were used to target

narrow groups of people for very little money. At

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ZeroFOX did some back-of-the-napkin math and

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enough people to potentially sway the outcome in

a tightly contested state like Michigan.

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divisions in our country. Other times, it’s to

create confusion about the election.

Whether President Trump realizes it or not, he’s

doing exactly what security experts and

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the last four years: making it harder to separate

truth from propaganda on social media.

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