Thread by @WolfieChristl

"the vast majority of political disinformation is coming from semi-professionals who are making money pushing disinformation, who are also politically motivated and have some kind of relationship to the political actors themselves" (Alex Stamos)

Sounds reasonable.

"it’s mostly scammers ... there are tens of thousands of people whose entire job it is to push spam on Facebook. It’s their career. There are hundreds of times more people doing that than there are working in professional disinformation campaigns"

Source: firstdraftnews.org/alex-stamos-in…

But profit/growth-driven misinformation is only the symptom. The scale/magnitude of the problem is the result of toxic business models and a broken click-based web economy.