"Disinformation” is false or misleading content intended to deceive or promote discord. Now, with the first presidential primary vote only five months away, the public should be aware of the sources and types of online disinformation likely to surface during the 2020 election.
The U.S. military has the capability, the willingness and, perhaps for the first time, the official permission to preemptively engage in active cyberwarfare against foreign targets.
By Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service, and Brandon Valeriano, Marine Corps University
Congress and federal agencies need to recognize that the military and veterans community is being targeted by foreign adversaries and to take immediate action to protect it.
Army veteran Kristofer Goldsmith embarked on a 15-month cyber investigation into social media trolls targeting the military community from Ukraine, Bulgaria, the Philippines and more than two-dozen other countries.