I just want to highlight that what has changed in disinformation & misinformation operations is not the strategy, but the technology which makes the attacks more likely, more personal, travel faster, & travel further. In 2001, the Christian Right's premier strategists, Paul
2/ Weyrich and William S. Lind, both then at the Free Congress Foundation, published an essay on the strategy and tactics of the "New Traditionalist Movement." See web.archive.org/web/2001071315…
3/ In addition to delegitimizing the Left--the focus of a Fourth Generation Warfare strategy--the essay also highlighted the tactic of instilling FEAR in their opposition. The FCF strategy document. It is an all-out assault to destroy the Left. 
4/ In August 2019, the NYT became aware of an operation linked to--even if with dots & plausible denialability--to the White House & Trump campaign and designed to undermine, if not destroy, the reputations of reporters and hence their negative coverage of Trump.
5/ Trump Allies Target Journalists Over Coverage Deemed Hostile to White House nyti.ms/2NwWKMW
6/ The March 2020 issue has an update. "Pro-Trump forces are poised to wage perhaps the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history, @mckaycoppins writes. Whether or not it succeeds in reelecting the president, the wreckage it leaves behind could be irreparable."
7/ theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… // A billion dollar campaign to target journalists in order to destroy reputations and coverage, and generally spread disinformation and misinformation. The strategy and tactics remain the same. The technology, the rise of a conservative movement
8/ information warfare infrastructure, and five decades of attacking the "liberal" media make it possible. What also makes it possible is the weakness of the mainstream media who still think this is a "normal" president and a "normal" GOP. If you are designated the "enemy," what
9/ does that make the Trump regime?
