The Russians didn’t swing the 2016 election to Trump. But Fox News might have. - The Washington Post
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The Russians didn’t swing the 2016 election to Trump. But Fox News might have.
“All the Russians did was jump on the right-wing propaganda bandwagon: Their efforts were small in scope, relative to homegrown media efforts. And what propaganda victories the Russians achieved occurred only when the right-wing media machine picked up stories and, often, embellished them,” writes BKC co-director Yochai Benkler in this Washington Post Op-Ed about his new book “Network Propaganda,” written with BKC research director Rob Faris and fellow Hal Roberts.
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