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The phenomenon has undermined our trust in electoral systems, in vaccines and in what happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Here are books on its history, techniques and effects.
Wokeness trumping Russian trolls Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. - photo by File photo
Why do the Russians need to bother spreading disinformation when our own domestic sources do a much better job at it?
We just went through a four-year national obsession with Kremlin disinformation. It supposedly swayed the 2016 presidential election. It was “sowing divisions” in American society. It accounted for the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election.
Social media companies were excoriated for allegedly letting Russian disinfo poison their networks, and the merican mind.
There was nothing that some Russian operators – spending a pittance – couldn’t do. The former Time magazine managing editor and Obama state department official Richard Stengel wrote a book called “Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It.” Accordi