[kaizendad]

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.

[polski-g]

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

[slantedview]

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

[chillwaves]

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.

[polski-g]

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."