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How Social Media Manipulates Public Thinking

Earlier this month, special counsel Robert Mueller filed an indictment of 13 Russians, accusing them of using social media networks to undermine the 2016 presidential election. As Think broadcasts from the studios of Houston Public Media, we talk with University of Houston assistant professor of communications Erica Ciszek about how special interest groups are increasingly using social media to influence and confuse public discourse.