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3 experts predict what 2022 may deliver in terms of social media misinformation

by The Conversation January 2, 2022December 30, 2021

AT THE END of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved up to the task, starting with the Jan. 6 insurrection and continuing with copious amounts of falsehoods and distortions about […]

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