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Seems to me that we will very, very quickly see why these teams were created.

Less snarkily, I appreciate that not everyone loved their work. But their work solved a particular problem, even if it created others. Now that problem is unsolved again. It will be interesting to see if a better solution to the problem appears by 2024, or if the decision is to allow that original problem to exist.



Those teams didn't exist in 2012 and nothing bad happened


It goes without saying that the political landscape in 2012 vs now is completely different, where one party is actively working to undermine elections.


The world is a different place than it was in 2012. Imo, around 2010/2012 is when social media disinfo in politics really started taking off in an organized/concerted way from the big players.


Political disinfo isn't new.

https://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/22/mf.campaign....

> Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."




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