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How Joe Biden’s digital team tamed the MAGA internet

Biden won, and despite having many fewer followers and much less engagement on social media than Trump, his campaign raised record amounts of money and ultimately neutralized Trump’s vaunted “…

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Roiled by election, Facebook struggles to balance civility and growth

The change was part of the “break glass” plans Facebook had spent months developing for the aftermath of a contested election

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Why conspiracy theories are so addictive right now

Zignal Labs, a firm that tracks online misinformation, said that the theory that Trump had faked his illness had been mentioned more than 85,000 times on social media

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