I have argued here more than once for a long time that the Western democracies are extremely naive when it comes clandestine and hostile foreign influence campaigns!
This issue has been known and ignored since almost the beginning of the Cold War! Western politicians are way too gullible and accommodating or dismissing it too easily! Of course, there were some, but few ugly excesses like McCarthyism, but this could have easily been corrected!
Our best hope is that e.g. Elon Musk will successfully counter these interference campaigns!
"China is increasingly interfering in US politics by getting its agents to create social media accounts posing as American citizens, according to research co-led by Renée DiResta, the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, who has studied foreign influence on social media for years.
DiResta published a report setting out the scale of the problem just a few days ago, in which she and her colleagues recently analyzed three China-based networks of accounts that pretended to be ordinary Americans on the right or left of the political spectrum.
The phony accounts’ strategy for stoking the political conflicts in an already polarized America closely resembled the activity of the fake Russian accounts that thrived before the 2016 elections—but were less effective than their Russian counterparts. ..."
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