Woot. I've read some of this guy's stuff. He is 80% noise but 20% amazing.
I haven’t read much by him. Yeah, he brings up things without taking a stand in his keynote, like with encryption. Intentionally trying to provoke discussion, I think.
He does start to get at how we’re in the midst of information warfare playing out between international oligarchic interests. But that increasingly requires global knowledge that most Americans do not possess. Sitting ducks.
This
Russian business is just
the tip of the iceberg:Kaiser said the Facebook data scandal was part of a much bigger global operation that worked with governments, intelligence agencies, commercial companies and political campaigns to manipulate and influence people, and that raised huge national security implications.
The unpublished documents contain material that suggests the firm was working for a political party in Ukraine in 2017 even while under investigation as part of Mueller’s inquiry and emails that Kaiser says describe how the firm helped develop a “sophisticated infrastructure of shell companies that were designed to funnel dark money into politics”.
