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However, it has also enabled populist agendas to capitalise on citizens' emotions in ways that rely on the internet's potential for misinformation, polarisation and political profiling aimed at manipulating voters (think, for example, of Cambridge Analytica's illegal harvesting of Facebook data during the Brexit referendum). These are issues, which are exacerbated by how internet corporations use algorithms and track users' data, that undermine our ability to use digital technologies both safely and with a view to participating in society... MEDIAWISE wants to focus on countering disinformation and other forms of interference in the democratic debate...

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