Why Disinformation Is a Major Threat to the 2020 Election

Social media companies have found no magic bullet to fight disinformation, or “fake news,” since the 2016 U.S. elections. If anything, America’s adversaries, including Russia and China, have become “more adept at using social media to alter how we think, behave and decide,” according to the U.S. intelligence community’s threat assessment, and they have branched beyond politics to other hot-button issues including the coronavirus pandemic. Disinformation isn’t just a foreign threat, as it’s becom