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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett explains how a network of Russian-backed accounts utilizes Instagram to spread political disinformation

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Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'We are seeing again that the aim of the Russians is not exclusively to favor one candidate over another but to create divisiveness within the electorate overall,' said Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. 'The reason that networks of phony accounts are drawn to Instagram is because disinformation is increasingly visual in nature, and that’s what Instagram specializes in.'”

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