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Many young people lack awareness about how social media manipulates what they see, said Irina Raicu, director of the internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

“They see these bits, these short posts,” Raicu said. “They are often posted by people who don’t claim to have kind of objectivity that at least straight news media outlets try to have. They are thinking that they are seeing reality, rather than thinking it’s part of a very painful or complicated conflict.”

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by NorthJersey.com/USA TODAY Network.