After the 2016 election, X (Twitter at that time) promised that it would crack down on fake accounts, sock-puppets, and bots, and for a while, it successfully halted the spread of misinformation. However, after Elon Musk took over the platform, most of the staff in charge of stemming the flow of misinformation were fired. This allowed the flow of misinformation ...

Think all the way back to 2016. It was a much simpler time, or so we thought. There was no Covid pandemic, but we still faced many of the same problems that we face today. It was during the election of 2016 that we first started to hear about the Russian disinformation campaign. The Russians were accused of using bots ...