'Perfect storm' Disinformation spreads after rally shooting

Disinformation researcher Amanda Rogers described the polarised, conspiracy-driven noise on social media in response to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump as "a self-sustaining spiral of shit".

- George Chidi

Rogers, a fellow at the progressive thinktank Century Foundation, has seen this before.

But the scale is new and troubling, she said. Bad actors want to turn a moment like this into a broader call for violence, she said, describing the assassination attempt as "an accelerationist's wet dream".

"The fact that this is the perfect storm environment for dis-info from every single point on the political spectrum is something that worries me immensely," she said.