FACEBOOK’S VP FOR ADS, ROB GOLDMAN, cites this article on Finland and information war. Three points: (1) So Facebook sold ads to the Russians, and now its argument is that the populace needs to be more critical of Facebook ads; (2) Maybe the article is right or maybe it’s just more government officials — Finnish this time — patting themselves on their backs; and (3) Assuming the article is true, then our ruling class, by deliberately fostering a populace that thinks in emotions, images, and tribalism so as to make it more susceptible to ruling-class propaganda, may have also created a populace that is more susceptible to enemy propaganda. Who could have seen that coming?

Totally unrelated: Democrats this weekend: “Forget what we were saying about the Tide Pod Challenge, high-schoolers should totally be able to vote.”