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First came the bots, then came the bosses - we’re entering Musk and Zuck’s new era of disinformation | Joan Donovan

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In 2024 , lies travel further and faster across social media, which is now a battleground for narrative dominance.

Tech's overlords, like Elon Musk and Zuckerberg , are now directly embedded in their algorithms.

Zuckerberg has reason to fear Trump , who has mentioned wanting to arrest Zuckerberg for deplatforming him on Meta products.

Joan Donovan is the founder of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and assistant professor of journalism at Boston University .

She says the design of platforms is now inextricable from the politics of the owner.

Donovan: Disinformation had become its own industry and the need for anonymity lessened as rightwing media makers impugned election results.

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