This is what 2020 will look like, only worse. Disinformation in real time.
In the above chart certain MSM outlets like FoxNews and specific RW outlets like Breitbart overloaded coverage on specific candidates this past week of the Second Democratic Debates.
This is not about absolute distinctions as we recall from the NY Times intervention in 2016 that swayed the election using James Comey.
as a RAND study put it: "don't expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth." RAND recommends raincoats. Quantity matters so much that five bad arguments can often beat one good one, especially if the five arguments come from five different sources.
www.rand.org/…
RAND Report: The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model by Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews, RAND Corporation. (2016)
https://t.co/Oa8djGkpLv
That is why data analysts need to look at a variety of agents and a variety of structures.
It’s about disinformation not as a hypodermic but as a firehose.
Active measures in this hybrid war will take many forms. Imagine if the grid (or a grid in the swing states or non-swing states) goes down on election day 2020.
"You have to undermine democracy by trying to get uninformed people to make irrational choices."--Noam Chomsky