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Trump’s premature claim of victory stokes confusion and conflict online

As mainstream news organizations urged caution and patience, social media swelled with confusion, conflict and, in some cases, outright fury in response to the president’s statement from the White House -- a scenario that law-enforcement officials and digital-threat analysts had warned about for months.
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