Conservatives were given content pitting immigrants against veterans, or pushing an anti-Muslim, or anti-Obama, agenda. African Americans were delivered content focusing on police violence against black people. The Russian-created Black Matters page, for instance, which described itself as a ‘fast-growing group of online activists,’ put out a message saying: ‘Cops kill black kids. Are you sure that your son won’t be the next?’ When it was eventually caught by Facebook and closed down, its Twitter account accused the company of ‘supporting white supremacy.’ In reality, all these accounts were
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