How should Democrats fight back against Trump’s billion-dollar “Death Star”? – By Bob Cesca (Salon) / Feb 11 2020
Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has built a $1 billion disinformation machine. Here’s how to beat it
They’re calling it the “Death Star.” While supporters of the various Democratic candidates for president pummel each other online, Grand Moff Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, is deploying this appropriately nicknamed $1 billion disinformation machine with the real potential to obliterate even the most perfect Democratic ticket this fall. For starters.
Among other things, this raises an extraordinarily important question: How exactly do the Democrats fight back against what amounts to a nuclear arsenal of lies and kooky conspiracy theories? We’ll circle back to that.
McKay Coppins’ terrifying new article for The Atlantic, “The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President,” about Parscale’s Rosslyn, Virginia-based agitprop factory, the “Death Star,” is a stop-the-presses moment for this election. Frankly, the size and despot-scale cynicism of Parscale’s project is almost too much to comprehend, rendering the myriad other Jenga pieces in this election small by comparison.
In essence what Coppins exposes here is everything we’ve heard about the nefarious, Robert Mueller-indicted Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia, but knocked off and weaponized domestically by Trump and Parscale, with the purpose of brainwashing millions of American social media users, poisoning their minds by polluting their Facebook feeds with laser-targeted, customized propaganda designed to make sure Trump gets a second term.
Coppins calls it “the most extensive disinformation campaign in U.S. history.”
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