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Is Your Social Media Feed Shaping How You Vote? What Every Voter Needs To Know
Is your social media feed shaping how you vote?
Before the midterm elections, LeRon "Big Ellie" Gaskins looks at how political content reaches your feed and why you should look beyond it before you vote.
The episode is based on The Atlantic's report by Ali Breland, "Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed." According to the article, a service run from Latvia paid "clippers," many in Eastern Europe and the global south, to post pro-Republican clips from accounts made to look like ordinary Americans. LeRon explains what a clipper is, how clip campaigns pay, and why a…
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