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Social media the 'greatest propaganda machine in history': Baron Cohen

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In his roles as characters such as Borat and Bruno, actor Sacha Baron Cohen is famed for tricking real people into making outlandishly bigoted comments on camera, turning their prejudice into the butt of his jokes.

Cohen didn't need any of his on-screen personas to rip into the world's biggest social media organisations for facilitating the kind of racism and hate he regularly lampoons.

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