The serious aspect of the “Russian threat” is not trolls and Facebook. It’s about the very real and devastating effect of hacking on political campaigns, and unsettling attacks on election infrastructure.https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-so-called-experts-uneasy-dive-into-the-trump-russia-frenzy …
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It’s one thing for campaigns to deal with trolls and our broken political culture. But very few of them are equipped to deal with actual criminal activity. And our state-run election infrastructure sure as hell isn’t.
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To me the lesson of the Internet Research Agency isn’t “OMG bots”, it’s just that Russia was so unafraid of consequences for what they did that they put actual people on the ground.
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The functioning of our electoral system relies on the idea that there are consequences for criminally undermining it. Russia made it clear that they fear no consequences, nor do they face any, so why shouldn’t they escalate?
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Replying to @laurilove
However bad it seems, I promise you it can be worse.
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oh god so much worse
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