Commentary: Four years ago, the presidential election launched a cyberwar. We're still losing
Hillary Clinton is more unvarnished than ever in “Hillary,” a new docuseries from director Nanette Burstein premiering March 6 on Hulu.
“The Conners” joined the long list of TV shows trying to stay on top of politics with a live episode built around the New Hampshire primary results.come since then. They provide a sobering look at what plagued us in 2016, and show how cyberattacks, hacking and foreign election tampering have exploded since then in scope and intensity.
And the chilling exposé “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections” follows Harri Hursti, a renowned Finnish hacker turned election expert, taking a deep dive into how Russians breached voting machines, purged voters from lists, crippled polling places and hacked government systems to influence and change the outcome of various elections.Pop culture isn’t just reacting to the changing tone of our democratic process.
Take the most benign pop culture moment — the awards show telecast. It almost always comes replete with a slurred acceptance speech in which the winner uses the opportunity to promote a cause, rebuke war or criticize policy, in between the usual list of teary thank-yous.during his opening monologue. The usually brilliant and eviscerating British comedian, by his own account, was phoning it in. “I don’t care,” he said repeatedly., he was telling the truth. He didn’t give a toss.
The response to my criticism of Gervais, however, did stand out. Aside from real folks who stated their support of the host, and their displeasure with my take on his performance, my social media following jumped by the hundreds in a matter of hours, thanks largely to sockpuppet accounts , some of which had only posted a scant few times since 2016.
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