How can malicious individuals or organizations leverage social media platforms for their own gain, such as manipulating public opinion, creating false evidence, or defaming someone?
How can malicious individuals or organizations leverage social media platforms for their own gain, such as manipulating public opinion, creating false evidence, or defaming someone?
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Individuals or organizations can utilize social media platforms to their own advantage by spreading false information, trolling and bullying individuals, posting unflattering pictures or videos, writing malicious code, generating fake accounts, impersonating somebody else, purchasing negative online ads and comments about someone or their brand. With the prevalence of social media there is an increased risk that any malicious individual/organization can quickly spread false information target at influencing public opinion which can have very serious repercussions.
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How can malicious individuals or organizations leverage social media platforms for their own gain, such as manipulating public opinion, creating false evidence, or defaming someone?
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Malicious individuals and organizations can leverage social media platforms to manipulate public opinion in a variety of ways, such as by using sophisticated network analysis tools to increase the visibility of certain types of content and suppressing negative sentiment, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI)-driven automated posts to spread false information quickly, and leveraging bots or impersonation accounts for targeted online harassment or defamation.
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