OPINION: Social media, political influence & free will – Part One: politics, society and the engineering of influence

Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, 20:46 by Writer by Ron Cheong For the 2026 midterm elections, campaigns and outside groups have so far spent $1.6 billion on digital ads overall, according to media-tracking database findings reported by MediaPost. For most of human history, the environments that influenced choices about what to read, what […]

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