Foreign disinformation campaigns on social media were big in the 2016 US presidential election. But what do they look like in the lead-up to the midterm elections? And what are social media companies doing to identify and shut those campaigns down? We speak with Jonathon Morgan, founder and CEO of New Knowledge, a company that builds technology to identify disinformation campaigns.
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