Mon 13/05/2019 - 08:00 https://www.cjr.org/politics/french-media-polarization.php Media Polarization "à la française"? Columbia Journalism Review During the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook became a battleground of persuasion and disinformation. Since then, there’s been a vigorous public debate about how—and to what extent—social networks are influencing democracy. While these conversations most often focus on the US, there is evidence that misinformation campaigns have sought to sway polls from London to Kinshasa. But does social media affect democracy the same way across the world, or do social platforms have different effects in different nations?