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Stephen Downes

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From where I sit, this is a case of the latest centralized news media being used for the same purpose centralized news media have always been used: to, um, educate the public. 'The reports... cover nine nations including Brazil, Canada, ChinaGermany, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States. They found "the lies, the junk, the misinformation' of traditional propaganda is widespread online and 'supported by Facebook or Twitter's algorithms" according to Philip Howard, Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford.'"

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