The spread of information for disruption purposes is now more prolific as it’s seen online and hides itself behind other uses and purposes. The suspicion that this may be first surfaced online in the social media universe. Users noticed posts that looked like fun interactions but definitely had a pointedness and a timeliness in other ways.
The ability to communicate across platforms to intuitively inform those trained for nefarious purposes was a skill used by the powerful for only the most insidious reasons. The escalation of interference to more operatives by States desperate to intervene in democratic purposes has unleashed it into the mainstream of tips and tricks to use on us.
Artificial Intelligence is a new frontier in this crime, used by closed States to empower their software teams for greater impact. It’s not just graphics, but navigation and text that helps at the user-end. These are placed and primed for operatives to use to approach political candidates, meet technology staff, and even speak to donors. The language gap is covered and the result is a capacity to think across borderlines.
