Jasmine Crocket, Taylor Swift and Bots

Both targets of foreign-influence campaigns people keep falling for

I’ve studied a lot of high-level smear, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns over the past five years — the kind that researchers in digital forensics, OSINT, and computational social science have been warning governments about since at least the early 2010s.

While these campaigns are often strictly political — the 2016 Russian election-interference …