Actors are motivated to spread disinformation to express their views, perpetuate false news, garner support for specific ideologies or otherwise affect public opinion. State-sponsored adversaries from around the world use bots to spread propaganda, influence political discourse and collectively aggregate content. Its up to security professionals to protect enterprise resources from becoming pawns in disinformation schemes and to make sure they are focusing on the true problems facing their organizations. Security leaders must learn to distinguish legitimate news from inaccurate, agenda-driven indoctrination.”]
Source: https://securityintelligence.com/information-security-in-the-age-of-disinformation/