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The "scary foreign" parts of this seems to miss the forest for the trees.

Social media makes rage-baiting people into a lucrative career and opens it up to anyone with an internet connection.

No it’s definitely more important that foreign countries are manipulating American politics through social media than people in poor countries are making money off of rage bait (and likely many of the latter are being paid by the former).

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