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Atlantic Mag Foams Over Trump’s Press Attack: Using Web ‘Disinformation’ Like Dictator for 2020

Posted on 09 February 2020

“The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President” is an 8,200-word epic in the March issue of The Atlantic magazine. It launched with staff writer McKay Coppins making a fake Facebook account to follow Trump groups, and was horrified. What was “spin” in the Clinton and Obama administration has become sinister and fascistic when the Trump team employs it for the Internet age: What I was seeing was a strategy that has been deployed by illiberal political leaders around the world....censorship through noise."