The War on Disinformation

In 1950 senator Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government overnight. The accusations blew up in the national press until 1970 when another list of alleged alleged Russian agents roiled the American political and press. A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundreds of Russian affiliated accounts that had infiltrated Twitter to sow chaos and help Donald Trump win the election Russia stood accused of hacking social media platforms and using them to covertly direct events inside the United States this is how the government created war against disinformation became the great moral crusade of its time CIA officers at Langley came to share a cause with hip young journalists in Brooklyn progressive nonprofits in DC George Soros funded think tanks