The New Propaganda: Bots, Trolls and Information Warfare

Imagine a factory that operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It does not produce cars or textiles. It produces opinions. Thousands of fake accounts publish coordinated content. Algorithms identify the people most susceptible to certain messages. Artificial intelligence generates texts indistinguishable from those written by humans. This factory exists. And it has probably tried to influence your view of the world.