Dispatches from the Disinformation War
October 22, 2020
In the latest foreign campaign to use social media to disrupt US society, Iran blasted a batch of false emails to Democratic voters, the government just announced, in apparent hope of swinging the upcoming election in President Trump’s favor. In a look behind the disinformation battle lines, a scholar of emerging technologies examined in Issues why the United States is particularly vulnerable to attacks that use the latest communication tools combined with insights from the cognitive and behavioral sciences, and what the nation can do to prevent or counter them.