Dave and the Spectacle of Computation

Right after the 2016 American presidential election, use of the the terms "misinformation" and "disinformation" on Twitter skyrocketed, presumably as people attempted to come to grips with what had just happened. A few years later (science takes time!), we see a marked increased in scientific papers trying to understand the phenomena. This is a tricky subject to study because, on the one hand,…