@DarrenLinvill @plwarre Saw the @rollingstone article. I think there is a new element to the current disinformation campaign being waged that makes it unprecedented, and it is not the unprecedented cheap reach afforded the Russian campaigns. The Russian campaign is a the same
thing on steroids. I think what is being missed is there is a new actor in this using the same tactics previously only available to nation states and their intelligence services. This is where the cheap reach makes a difference. It has permitted private actors to enter the
information war. One private actor specifically has interests that align with the Russian disinformation campaign, although for slightly different reasons. These interests, as you mention, are to spread fear, uncertainty, doubt,
mistrust, and division. To break the faith on which our democracy rests. The Koch network as described in Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains and @JaneMayerNYer Dark Money. While they want to destroy the modern American Neo liberal order in the
name of "economic liberty" and Russia just to destroy it, they want to destroy it just the same. They seek nothing less than to overturn the prevailing constitutional order, and they are using agents of influence and online campaigns as well if not better funded than the
Russians. I am not alleging that there is any cooperation, merely overlap in interests. There doesn't need to be cooperation for their to be amplification. So while not a 360 pound guy on the couch, there is a threat coming from inside the house, a new threat.
The Russia threat is unprecedented, but so is the neolibertartian insurgency. They outspent Exxon by nearly 5 times on climate change propaganda, there is no reason to believe they and their network are not outspending a petro ruble kleptocracy in this propaganda campaign.
