In politics and pandemics, trolls use fear, anger to drive clicks

ScienceDaily
Mar 26, 2020, 3:59 pm180 pts
A new CU Boulder study shows that Facebook ads developed and shared by Russian trolls around the 2016 election were clicked on nine times more than typical social media ads. The authors say the trolls are likely at it again, as the 2020 election approaches and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on.

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