we can sort of use that as a jumping off point to have a larger discussion about it and what you write about. Sure. So in around probably as early as late 2017, but certainly by mid-2018, I had begun to notice that this word disinformation, which I wasn't especially familiar with and wasn't something that one found commonly in public discourse during the Obama administration, for instance, was all of a sudden everywhere. And it was all of a sudden the sort of organizing principle of national security discourse, the organizing principle of high-level political opposition to Donald Trump. It was all sort of revolving around this notion that there was this thing, disinformation, which had infiltrated the American political system, but not just the American political system, had infiltrated the very ecosystem in which we all lived and in which the political system took place and was situated, and that having infiltrated it, it was now destroying liberal democracy from within. And one could (14/44)
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