Operation and Significance

Inside left-wing communities, the system posed as right-wing radicals. Inside right-wing communities, it posed as left-wing extremists. Each side came to believe that it was resisting a genuine threat. The Engine did not merely attack individual facts. It attacked the ability to identify where information came from, to recognize a common reality, and to accept public institutions as legitimate.

Sources

Volume I, “The Algorithmic Trojan Horse”