back to article US election 2020: The disinfo operations have evolved, but so have state governments

With the United States set to undertake its first Presidential election since the Russian-tinged 2016 race, state governments and social networks are upping their game. This from the team at Cisco Talos, which cautioned in a new report that while governments and sites are better prepared for disinformation campaigns, the way …

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  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge
    Mushroom

    Just business as usual..... nothing to see here

    At the highest level we are far more aware, people are more aware of what disinformation is, and the states are actively involved," said Biasini.

    "I definitely think that we are in better shape, but we won't really know what is going to happen until it happens."

    No shit, Sherlock. Now do you want to tell us something we haven’t known since forever and as was eloquently revealed by a wordsmith master of the alarming misunderstatement not so very long ago :-) .....

    Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones ..... United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

    Don’t you yet realise there are much greater Greater Great Games afoot ..... and how extremely catastrophically vulnerable one is to their business exploits and social experiments which be both real and virtually virtuous shenanigans? When is the penny going to drop ...... apart from the time it be far too late to do anything about anything whilst everything is collapsing around one?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    ElectRon AI

    Feel sorta someone should say something...

    awesome cab1es, Ronald

    ...but better not. N0t in the m00d. Heavens know what makes what in this case.

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