Quoted in Wired: “Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections”

Erkan Saka, professor of journalism and media studies at Istanbul Bilgi University, says the power of trolls may be overstated. The mainstream press reaches a larger audience, and much of it is friendly to the president. “The whole media establishment is in fact using disinformation,” Saka says.

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