By André Ramos Tavares* (Opinion) The 2008 campaign of Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency was the first significant instance of intensive use of social media’s capabilities, as indicated by Martin Moore, a specialist in Media and Economic Politics, in his work “Hacked Democracy.” However, this phenomenon’s main problem is the widespread dissemination of misinformation […]
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