Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University and California State Polytechnic University, USA.

• Introduction: Perceptions of western mainstream media 1. Trump’s campaign, the "Steele" dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment 2. "Election meddling" and the health of US democracy 3. "Bots" and "Trolls" 4. Cambridge Analytica and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) 5. Implications for social media 6. Fake news and Intelligence: Enter "spooks" 7. Fake news and Intelligence: Hacks and Hackers 8. RussiaGate and the Russian "threat"

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Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University and California State Polytechnic University, USA.

• Introduction: Perceptions of western mainstream media 1. Trump’s campaign, the "Steele" dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment 2. "Election meddling" and the health of US democracy 3. "Bots" and "Trolls" 4. Cambridge Analytica and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) 5. Implications for social media 6. Fake news and Intelligence: Enter "spooks" 7. Fake news and Intelligence: Hacks and Hackers 8. RussiaGate and the Russian "threat"

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Oliver Boyd-Barrett is Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University and California State Polytechnic University, USA.

• Introduction: Perceptions of western mainstream media 1. Trump’s campaign, the "Steele" dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment 2. "Election meddling" and the health of US democracy 3. "Bots" and "Trolls" 4. Cambridge Analytica and Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) 5. Implications for social media 6. Fake news and Intelligence: Enter "spooks" 7. Fake news and Intelligence: Hacks and Hackers 8. RussiaGate and the Russian "threat"

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