> Removing foreign influence operatives from the comment sections of CNN, WashingtonPost, and Fox News would do a lot to heal the national divide and quell the brewing extremism.
No one in Operation Mockingbird even so much as got a sternly written letter when they were caught implanting CIA agents within national news agencies. They got the message loud and clear though, it was only a problem if the U.S. government directly coordinated the propaganda directly. The CIA immediately privatized the whole operation and hid it behind the curtain in Allen and Co's Sun Valley conference, where they still meet every year (for 37 years now), to coordinate the national narrative.
The government of the people, by the people, for the people is able to talk to the press and control the media through various means. This is true. This is also fundamentally good when the government is a Western Liberal Democracy.
The issue I am trying to discuss is the comment sections which are being leveraged as an attack vector. In addition to that, there is the issue of attackers leveraging abstracted comment sections like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and even HackerNews.
The adversaries are everywhere. They are even embedded in tech companies under false identities.
No one in Operation Mockingbird even so much as got a sternly written letter when they were caught implanting CIA agents within national news agencies. They got the message loud and clear though, it was only a problem if the U.S. government directly coordinated the propaganda directly. The CIA immediately privatized the whole operation and hid it behind the curtain in Allen and Co's Sun Valley conference, where they still meet every year (for 37 years now), to coordinate the national narrative.