“I Found Election Interference And No One Cared”: One US Veteran’s Fight To Protect His Compatriots Online

In this role, he has had to deal with the apathy of decision-makers and the intransigence of social media companies.
Goldsmith now has perhaps the world’s most extensive collection of examples of online attacks against US veterans.
Between 11 and 20% of Iraq veterans suffer from PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Goldsmith’s job with the VVA didn’t require him to catalog how US veterans were being targeted online.
The report’s 10 chapters each deal with a different type of social media manipulation.

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