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What I was seeing was a strategy that has been deployed by illiberal political
leaders around the world. Rather than shutting down dissenting voices, these
leaders have learned to harness the democratizing power of social media for
their own purposes—jamming the signals, sowing confusion. They no longer need to
silence the dissident shouting in the streets; they can use a megaphone to drown
him out. Scholars have a name for this: censorship through noise.
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President How new
technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
theatlantic.com
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