One of Facebook’s key talking points over the past year, as it faces more pressure to act in the face foreign interference in elections, is that it can’t do the job alone. The government is best positioned to fight foreign threats, it has argued. And for various reasons, many of which are political, the government to date has not seemed to be fighting very hard.
Today, however, the United States Cyber Command disclosed its first known foreign operation designed to protect the integrity of our elections. And the linchpin of this operation, aimed at Russian operatives, is ... sending them direct messages.
Julian E. Barnes has the story in the New York Times:
Defense officials would not say how many individuals they were targeting, and...
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