The Washington Put up editorial board
If Iran’s and Russia’s disinformation marketing campaign “feels like a repeat of the 2016 presidential marketing campaign, with overseas nations making an attempt to intrude in U.S. democracy, it’s,” says The Washington Put up editorial board. Russia has now “supercharged the method to unfold disinformation at excessive velocity and on industrial scale.” It’s “probably there are lots of different still-undetected affect campaigns,” utilizing synthetic intelligence, so “Congress should fund and improve packages that warn residents in opposition to getting duped.”
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Hayes Brown at MSNBC
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Julian E. Zelizer at International Coverage
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Itxu Díaz at Nationwide Assessment
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