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 âsowing divisionsâ in American society. It accounted for the discovery of Hunter Bidenâs laptop during the 2020 election.
Social media companies were excoriated for allegedly letting Russian disinfo poison their networks, and the American mind.
There was nothing that some Russian operators â spending a pittance â couldnât do. The former Time magazine managing editor and Obama state department official Richard Stengel wrote a book called âInformation Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It.â According to Stengel, the Russians had mounted âan unprecedented attack against the very foundation of our democracy.â