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In this post from Lawfare, a much-read legal affairs blog, its editor gives a riveting first-person account of what, how and why he told a Times reporter this week about his conversations with James Comey about Donald Trump, information that produced [a front-page scoop](   [LAWFARE »]( [Simply Devastating]( [Runa Sandvik]( [Runa Sandvik]( Director of Information Security, Newsroom Russia may have found a way to alter the course of real-life events by manipulating public opinion through phishing, fake news and social media propaganda. What’s fascinating is that these tactics are not technically advanced — disinformation tactics were used in the Cold War — but the use of computing power to segment and target millions of people at once is forcing security experts to rethink their defensive measures. 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