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Money For Misinformation? Experts Say The First Domestic 'Troll Farms' Are Here

Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group, was found to be paying young conservatives to make false posts online claiming that mail-in ballots will lead to election fraud. (Getty Images)
Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group, was found to be paying young conservatives to make false posts online claiming that mail-in ballots will lead to election fraud. (Getty Images)

Host Lisa Mullins talks to Graham Brookie of the Atlantic Council about Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump youth group that The Washington Post reports has been paying young conservatives to make false posts online claiming that mail-in ballots will lead to election fraud and the coronavirus numbers have been inflated.

Brookie says this kind of domestic misinformation is more dangerous than foreign because of its scale and scope.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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