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share this: evaluations. Researchers from Royal Holloway, teaching hospital of London, and the teaching hospital of Bristol, report an search with 150 competitors in which they manipulated the worm and superimposed it on a live publication of a UK option debate. The majority of viewers were unaware that the worm had been manipulated, and yet the researchers were able to efficaciousness their perception of who won the debate, their choice of preferred prime minister, and their voting intentions."

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