A poster reading 'Media-critiquing Trump has changed the meaning of fake news' is displayed by Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat at a stop for public transport in Helsinki, Sunday, July 15, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Monday at Finnish presidential palace in Helsinki that overlooks the Baltic Sea — the same venue where two of their predecessors met in 1990. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Online disinformation and the spread of deceptive political messages are pernicious, but they aren’t necessarily the worst abuse of social networks by governments and political actors.
Rational people are resistant to propaganda, and irrational ones only consume messages that stroke their confirmation biases. No one, however, can be impervious to personal attacks on a mass scale.
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