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Elections: Swaying and safeguarding

Developments in technology and neuroscience offer researchers new opportunities to study and influence elections

As the continent prepares to go to the polls between 23 and 26 May to select the MEPs who will sit in the next European Parliament, voters face many people trying to sway their opinions.

Researchers are increasingly at the frontlines in this battle of ideas, both fighting untruths and trying to seed ideas of their own.

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