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Everyone wants to weigh in with their Most Astute Take™ on the midterms.
But no one wants to even factor in the glaringly obvious: the US has been under the most sustained information attack by foreign states in decades, if not generations.
Foreign adversaries have learned…
— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) November 5, 2026
But no one wants to even factor in the glaringly obvious: the US has been under the most sustained information attack by foreign states in decades, if not generations.
Foreign adversaries have learned to weaponize the very protections and safeguards – First Amendment, Section 230, privacy laws – that make discourse online possible. They use our shield as their weapon.
These actors have learned that they don’t need to “hack Facebook” — as the press claimed Russia did in 2016. (In fact, that had no measurable impact.) They found that they don’t need to infiltrate voting systems.
Instead, they have learned to focus on seeding poisonous narratives into virtually every open information system online. It’s not only effective, but it’s remarkably efficient.
Read the whole thing, but understand that the side that argued stripping is a constitutional right did not adopt the burqa by accident.