This year disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with the "Plandemic" as a case study of social networks' failures (Jane Lytvynenko/BuzzFeed News)

Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
This year disinformation about the pandemic, BLM protests, and the election divided the US, with the “Plandemic” as a case study of social networks' failures  —  Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the year of the infodemic.  Month after month, self-serving social media companies …