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Russia is hacking your social media news feed

Now that most of our information - and the information that news organizations use as raw material - is delivered by technology platforms such as social networks, what we know about the world is potentially hackable. Propagandists no longer have to convince professional news organizations to spread their stories; they just have to embed them into�

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• 03/05/15: Why Estonia won't be Putin's next conquest: What the tiny nation is planning
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• 01/26/15: 'This is how America leads.' Really?

Leonid Bershidsky is a Bloomberg View contributor. He is a Berlin-based writer, author of three novels and two nonfiction books. Bershidsky was the founding editor of Russia's top business daily, Vedomosti, a joint project of Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, and the first publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes. He also founded the opinion website Slon.ru; ran the business book arm of Russia's biggest book publisher, Eksmo; and worked as managing director at KIT Finance investment bank. He has an MBA from Insead in Fontainebleau, France.

Russia is hacking your social media news feed

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