Security News > 2020 > August > Disinformation Spurs a Thriving Industry as U.S. Election Looms

The techniques, the tools, that type of stuff, and kind of looking forward a little bit to what we can expect on the upcoming election and in the near term.

And you guys did a really kind of deep dive look at focusing in on the infrastructure to behind these disinformation campaigns and how bad actors are evolving their tool sets and techniques and what this means for the upcoming election.

One of the key differentiators for me is I was actually kind of surprised at how easy it is to actually launch a disinformation campaign.

We talked a little bit about the Facebook groups and the usage that was found in the Roger Stone campaign - the Roger Stone takedown that happened in Facebook a while ago - where they kind of showed how these Facebook groups can be used pretty well to kind of focus a message and to kind of be an initial springboard to start your disinformation, right.

As you had mentioned, this is a good example of how there is an increased public awareness about kind of disinformation out there, especially after 2016.

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