“With features like account anonymity, unlimited audience access, low cost technology tools, plausible deniability – social media provides Russia an unprecedented opportunity to execute their dark arts of manipulation and subversion…Today, anonymous sites rife with conspiracy theories, such as 4Chan and Reddit, offer unlimited options for placement of digital forgeries that drive Kremlin narratives. Graphics, memes & documents litter these discussion boards providing ammunition for Kremlin narratives and kompromat. Anonymous posts of the Kremlin’s design or those generated by the target audiences power smear campaigns and falsehoods that tarnish confidence in America and trust in democratic institutions.”

Clint Watts, stupid capitalists servant

“Account anonymity in public provides some benefits to society, but social media companies must work immediately to confirm real humans operate accounts,” Watts told the committee. “The negative effects of social bots far outweigh any benefits.” It’s a common insight among bot-hunters, and one that’s become particularly popular amid this week’s hearings.

Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch cast the entire problem as one of identity. “It wasn’t so much the content,” Stretch told the committee. “The real problem with what we saw was its lack of authenticity.”

So, plan is simple. Draw fish in the pond, scare it with terrorists and Russia, and pull water out of the pond under pretence of common good.

Ruling class want to control stuff, as controlling stuff is equal to survival of this rotten species that are going extinct fast.