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EXAMPLES OF GLOBAL MDM CAMPAIGNS

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23 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook. 24 Id. 25 Elain Kamarck, “Malevolent soft power, AI, and the Threat to Democracy,” November 29, 2018, at https://www.brookings.edu/articles/malevo lent-soft-power-ai-and-the-threat-to-democracy/. 26 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/data-misuse-and-disinformation-technology-and-the-2022-elections/.

27 https://faculty.lsu.edu/fakenews/elections/sixteen.php. 28 MYYUX \\\ OZXYNHJ LT[ FWHMN[JX XHT ܪ QJ IQ .

29 Id. at 1, 19. 30 Id. at 1, 4. 31 Id. 32 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9. 33 https://www.reuters.com/graphics/U.S.A-ELECTION/DATA-VISUAL/yxmvjjgojvr/.

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