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04/11/2017 GMT

The Impact of Social Media on Politics

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Social media and the US presidential election; Ghanaian film ponders post independence

Evidence emerges that social media accounts with ties to Russia influence US politics; a Ghanaian film which ponders the country's progress since independence.

(Image: Representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google appear at a US Senate hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 Presidential Election. Credit: Getty Images)

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