How stealth partisan outlets exploit trust in local journalism
New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science found that partisan media operations spent millions of dollars on social media ads ahead of key elections to promote pink slime websites masquerading as local news sources to sway voters with their content.
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