The disinformation move is predictable. It is how radicalization also works. Whispers online, Russian bots, Trump tweet, FOX news primetime, impacted parties left to respond, reporters figure out truth. It's predictable. 4 years later, their moves are the same. Why are ours? 1/
In so many cases, institutions think that silence will make it go away (nope) or that engagement makes them seem partisan (nope). We know how disinformation works now. Engagement may not change all minds, but silence is used by them as a weapon. Silence is handing them fuel. 2/
The Commission on Presidential Debates has equities to defend their stated purpose "to meet its ongoing goal of educating voter" "for the benefit of the American electorate." Respond to lies. Make clear what was asked, requirements, standards. Assert agency. Every single time. 3/
This isn't about protecting one party from another. Biden's got this. It is about institutions preserving their own equities from a man whose sole move -- to break them -- has benefit of being the same move. We know what's coming. We have countermoves. We have agency. @debates
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