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Politico / Alex Thompson / Sep 28, 2020
Says an anonymous Facebook executive: “Right-wing populism is always more engaging”; it speaks to “an incredibly strong, primitive emotion” by touching on such topics as “nation, protection, the other, anger, fear”; “That was there in the [19]30s. That’s not invented by social media — you just see those reflexes mirrored in social media, they’re not created by social media.”
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