No, postcards won’t solve our Russian interference problem
We just learned all the ways Russian propaganda agents fooled American social media companies, thanks to the recent indictments of Russian nationals by Team Mueller. After years of these companies forcing us to adhere to their contrived "community safety" policies and made-up rules to police our identities (which they swore was for our own good), their failures are rather spectacular. Russia's low-rent spies -- I mean, trolls -- leveraged every hypocrisy (like "real names" policies), weakness (tolerance of hate groups, impersonation, and false information), and flaunting of laws (political advertising disclosures) inherent in America's biggest social media companies to do the unimaginable: divide and conquer US democracy. If you missed it, the Internet Research Agency indictment outlined an operation that ran hundreds (if not tens of thousands ) of fake accounts, impersonated the GOP and civil rights groups, stole identities from actual US citizens ...