Despite `perfect storm` of U.S. discord, America`s truths trump foreign fictions
(WorldNews Canada)

WASHINGTON — The confluence of a pandemic, a raucous civil-rights movement, an economy on the brink and a stubborn, deeply divided electorate: experts call it a “perfect storm” of conditions in which to sow the seeds of disinformation and partisan strife in the United States. Too perfect, in fact. Given the hard lessons of the 2016 U.S. election, it’s safe to assume that bad actors, foreign and domestic alike, are already hard at work trying to take full advantage of the discord, said Jed Willard, a Harvard University expert on information warfare. But much of the work is being done for them — partisan battles over masks, economic lockdowns and Black Lives...