Disinformation starts at the top with America’s elites

Just like tanks, our society is more vulnerable to misinformation attacks at the top, but we ve been concentrating our defenses further down, with poor results.

Efforts at protecting our society from foreign disinformation are mostly aimed at keeping unapproved messages from reaching the common people, who are presumed to be too dumb to see through foreign propaganda. 

There are two problems with this.

One is that the common people are also what are known as voters, and efforts to limit their exposure to unwelcome information and ideas are inevitably and I mean inevitably perverted into domestic political manipulation. 

via nypost.com

Glenn Reynolds.