These governments have also become adept at using those same [social media] channels to spread misinformation. “You can now create a narrative saying a democracy activist was a traitor . . . ,” says Anne Applebaum, an author who directs a program on radical political and economic change at the Legatum Institute in London. “The possibility of creating an alternative narrative is one people didn’t consider, and it turns out people in authoritarian regimes are quite good at it.”

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