"Russia Tried Again, Iran Antagonized, and China Didn’t Show: Insights and Lessons Learned on Foreign Influence in Election 2020" New post on foreign interference in election 2020, what did we learn? @FPRI #FIE2020
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1 - Some notes on this post, no surprise to anyone that lived in the U.S. this election cycle - domestic disinformation & interference outpaced foreign disinformation by many miles, it wasn't even close.
2- all of the election defense preparation made a difference against foreign influence, lots of shutdowns and cooperation between the public & private sector in #Election2020
3- Twitter bots are so 2016, video is medium for influence today & cross platform manipulation that matters most. Lots of research about Twitter because its easyfor researchers, but tough stuff that matters more for influence are closed spaces, private groups & video/audio
4 - In 2016, we learned about Manafort meeting with Kilimnik and were aghast, this time, 2020, we watched a candidate's lawyer & chief provocateur follow same pattern and broadcast it for all the world to see washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…
5- Russia tried as expected, but surprise this time was Iran, they didn't shift votes, but caused headaches through provocations & incitement. Meanwhile, as USA worried about election, RU pulled off Solarwinds & China spread disinfo worldwide about COVID19.
For those concerned about China & infowar, we wasted a year trying to detect something they didn't do much of (election interference) while giving them a free pass on COVID19 disinformation which harms America at home & abroad.
If we want to get tough on China in the information space, plenty of opportunities, we should focus on what they are doing and counterattack, stop making up distracting hollow strawman arguments
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