SocietyDigital distrust and polarisation: ‘We need to get back to engaging with one another as a society’

Valdemar Osted, partner and head of technology at Danish digital consultancy Common Consultancy, challenges widely circulated claims that attacks on Russian data centres caused online engagement among Donald Trump supporters and Germany’s AfD supporters to suddenly collapse. He says social media monitoring and research into inauthentic behaviour found no unusual fall in Facebook interactions after the attacks.

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