Drunk deepfakes. Instagram skullduggery. For-profit meme wars. An expert tells us what 2020 election disinformation could look like
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, Barrett describes what election interference might look like in the upcoming 2020 elections and what tech companies, state and federal government, and regular citizens can do about it.on Monday about Russia’s next moves, why Instagram and WhatsApp are of particular concern, and why we should expect election interference to be more domestic — think Americans vs. Americans — than foreign in 2020. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
The business of disinformation is morphing from traditional clickbait to companies doing disinformation for pay for outside clients. I argue in the report that provably false information deserves to be removed from the social media sites. While I recognized that that’s not a conventional position, I see it as being less radical than it sounds. It’s just another category added to hate speech, bullying, conspiracy hoaxes, added to election voter suppression speech.
WhatsApp is a different set of issues. The main reason I included WhatsApp is simply the degree to which it was used in Brazil and India during their presidential election. It’s important to note, as I do in the report, that WhatsApp is not as popular in the U.S. as it is in other countries and Facebook has already reduced the reach of WhatsApp gradually.
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