1. Discuss how issues of election interference and national security have evolved in the face of the digital turn.

2. In this video, David Sanger notes that Facebook missed 2016 election interference on its platform because it wasn’t looking for misinformation and didn’t understand how the platform was being used to disseminate it. Do you think social media companies should take a more active role in addressing misinformation on their platforms? If so, what might be done to convince them to do so? Do you think Facebook is better prepared to track and expose this interference now than it was four years ago? Why or why not?

3. How do social media platforms, such as Facebook, lend themselves to the creation and proliferation of misinformation and disinformation? What aspects of these platforms make them appealing to those wishing to spread false information?