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How tech firms have tried to stop disinformation and voter intimidation – and come up short

  • Written by Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Executive Director, Ostrom Workshop; Cybersecurity Program Chair, IU-Bloomington, Indiana University
How tech firms have tried to stop disinformation and voter intimidation – and come up shortFacebook and the other social media platform companies are facing a reckoning for their handling of disinformation.AP Photo/Noah Berger

Neither disinformation nor voter intimidation is anything new. But tools developed by leading tech companies including Twitter, Facebook and Google now allow these tactics to scale up dramatically.

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