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How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online. In a new study, Yale researchers show how a social media platform can shift users’ positions or increase overall polarization by selectively muting and amplifying posts in ways that appear neutral to an outside observer.

False news outlets, bots and inauthentic hyperpartisan accounts contributed to social media chatter during the first Republican presidential debate according to new technology developed by researcher which analysed almost one million posts and key hashtags generated around it