"Rather than shutting down dissenting voices, these leaders have learned to harness democratizing power of social media for their own purposes—jamming signals, sowing confusion. They no longer need to silence dissident shouting in streets; they can use megaphone to drown him out"
"Scholars have a name for this: censorship through noise."
This article is incredibly disturbing. While mostly focused on Trump and his campaign's intentional distortion of facts - including using my 2017 "coup" tweet - for their political purposes, there is also discussion of how Democrats are weaponizing the Internet.
We should all be concerned. The victim, no matter which party or individual undertakes these devious tactics, is truth. We all lose.
