By Staff Writer | February 10, 2020
McKay Coppins, a writer for The Atlantic, says President Trump’s reelection team is waging a massive disinformation campaign that uses the same tactics of information warfare used by autocrats like Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and by Russian President Vladimir Putin in our 2016 election.
Coppins says their tactics include coordinated bot attacks, micro-targeting millions of voters susceptible to radicalization and conspiratorial thinking, anonymous mass texting, and infiltrating local news stations with Potemkin local news websites. It’s all meant to flood our senses and confuse our ability to discern fact from fiction.