@Paulatics @justinling The international studies on Cambridge Analytica (SCL) and Facebook did most of the work of documenting how these ooperate to sw seeds of a rumour and have it amplified to a point where Breitbart would pick it up and then Fox News would pick it up from Breitbart and trump pick it up from Fox "I heard that <insert conspiracy>. But this was actually well organized behind the scenes (and where ussians would help make it go viral with their bots).