# Professor Michael Posner is quoted about election meddling on Facebook; recent research by the Center for Business and Human Rights about Russian influence on U.S. elections is referenced

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Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/technology/facebook-trolls-midterm-elections.html) -- "'This is not a one-time event limited to the 2016 election,' said [Michael Posner](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/michael-posner), the director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s Stern School of Business, which recently published a report about Russian influence campaigns. 'It’s a daily drumbeat. These are entities trying to disrupt our democratic process by pushing various forms of disinformation into the system.'"

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