Bipartisan Senate report calls for sweeping effort to prevent Russian interference in 2020 election

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4. I think the difference between the social media influence

and the issues you mention is that the "physical" securing of the election systems (or "hardening" as they sometimes term it) is something that has been a chronic problem - literally for as long as "voting" has been available around the world - thousands of years.

But in the case of the social media, that is more a modern form of "propaganda" (electronic) versus the newspapers/flyers and roaming bands of of speakers (in meetings, on radio/television/film, etc).

What makes it more insidious however, is that thanks to the internet, the propaganda can reach far and wide around the world vs the old days of dropping flyers from a plane or using a high-power transmitter to broadcast to other countries!