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CA120: Politics in the digital age
An illustration using hard-drawn images on green data paper. (Maksim Kabakou, via Shutterstock)This past election cycle rewrote the rules for digital campaigning. Most media coverage, especially after the election, has focused on how a brand of digital terrorism – viral campaigns based on fake news stories, fueled by fake social media accounts and hacked computers – put before voters a mix of negative messages and falsehoods that had a huge impact on the U.S. presidential campaign.