Russian meddling charges stoke fear that midterms will bring more of the same

Indictments against Russia reveal the nation’s skills at creating chaos online, and it’s unclear if Big Tech can yet fight off another onslaught.

David vs. Goliath: On one hand, 13 Russian nationals charged with inflicting “information warfare” on America. On the other, Facebook, with $40 billion of revenue and 25,000 employees.

Fake news redux?  The Wall Street Journal notes Big Tech was unprepared in 2016. The same may be true for the 2018 midterms. “Lots of levers … get pulled in social media for the sake of manipulation” says Sam Woolley, from the Computational Propaganda research team at Oxford University, to the Journal. “A lot of those levers aren’t even known by the companies themselves.”