Russiagate derangement lumbers on:
We’ve spent those eight years learning a new lexicon: “misinformation”, “disinformation”, “microtargeting”. We’ve learned about information warfare. As journalists, we, like FBI investigators, used evidence to show how social media was a vulnerable “threat surface” that bad actors such as Cambridge Analytica and the Kremlin could exploit.
God forbid people should understand the propaganda regime they’ve lived under their entire lives.
As opposed to the prior 30 years of “do a thou wilt” to silicon valley…
They’ve been an integral part of the military-industrial complex since the beginning. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/palo-alto-malcolm-harris-review/