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Timothy Frye Interviewed on CNBC about Using Social Media to Sow Dissent
November 16, 2020

Timothy Frye (Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy) was interviewed for a CNBC segment on the history and ongoing effort by foreign adversaries to use social media to sow dissent and mistrust ahead of US presidential elections. The piece examines the differences between interference by bots and trolls in 2016 and 2020.

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