Disinformation and the PR Industry

The Internet Research Agency, Russia’s Troll Farm

Between Trump’s and the GOP’s disregard for the truth, and the unwillingness of the major social platforms — Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter — to remove provably false or purposely doctored information from reaching its users, America is poised for a whole lot of hurt in 2020.

Now comes the news, thanks to some nifty reporting by Buzzfeed, of how some public relations firms are offering services that…