Pay to sway: report reveals how easy it is to manipulate elections with fake news
by Sam Levin in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#2SVT0)
Fake News Machine research comes amid increasing concern about hacking elections and the ways that fake news on social media has manipulated voters
Political campaigns can manipulate elections by spending as little as $400,000 on fake news and propaganda, according to a new report that analyzes the costs of swaying public opinion through the spread of misinformation online.
The report from Trend Micro, a cybersecurity firm, said it also costs just $55,000 to discredit a journalist and $200,000 to instigate a street protest based on false news, shining a light on how easy it has become for cyber propaganda to produce real-world outcomes.
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