Will foreign meddlers use snail mail?

[Robert Urbanek]

Given the efforts to curb Russian and other nation’s use of election misinformation on social media, will the foreign meddlers turn to the U.S. postal service to deliver campaign-related material? Admittedly, given the problems with the postal service, this may seem a counterintuitive idea.

One could see, for example, Russians flooding the mail service with official-looking documents advising people to show up to the wrong addresses to vote. Or foreign agencies may create and mail out “newspapers,” presumably exempt from election funding laws, whose pages are dominated by political hit pieces.

 

[Oddball]

No...The RUSSIANS! really won't need to expend the effort...We already have the Postal Worker's union in place for that duty.

 

[MarathonMike]

Didn't the Chinese just flood the USPS with mailings of seeds? If any country is going to try the tactic of plugging up snail mail, it will be the Chinese.

 

[Moonglow]

Since Wiki and the Ruskies can't help Trump this time I doubt they use snail mail to mail out misinformation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The WikiLeaks website played a key role in Russia's effort to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of now President Donald Trump and likely knew it was assisting Russian intelligence, a Senate intelligence committee report said on Tuesday.

The report also alleged that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska, before during and after the 2016 U.S. election that pitted Republican Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The panel found Manafort's role and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence, saying his "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services... represented a grave counterintelligence threat."

Senate committee concludes Russia used Manafort, WikiLeaks to boost Trump in 2016

Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday. WikiLeaks played a key role in Russia's effort to assist...

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[HereWeGoAgain]

It'd be far more effective than $230k in FaceBook ads.

 

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