Samuel Woolley, Assistant professor of journalism and Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently commented on an article in ABC News entitled “Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information.” The article addresses political dialogue ahead of the presidential information in November.

“With these types of accounts, there’s an allure of covertness, there’s this idea that they somehow might know something that other people don’t,” he said. “They’re co-opting the language of genuine whistleblowing or democratically inclined leaking. In fact what they’re doing is antithetical to democracy.”

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