A report by the Oxford Internet Institute has found that organised social media manipulation has more than doubled since 2017 with 70 countries now sharing misinformation online. It also claims that 45 democracies, politicians and political parties used computational propaganda tools to gather fake followers or spreading manipulated media to garner voter support.
In 26 authoritarian states, government entities used computational propaganda as a way to control information, suppress public opinion and press freedom, discredit criticism, and drown out political dissent, such as China’s attempt to quash recent protests in Hong Kong.
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