Foreign Disinformation in America and the U.S. Government’s Ethical Obligations to Respond - Lecture Notes in Social Networks 2023 edition

So what are the ethical responsibilities of the executive branch to counter covert campaigns such as the one coming from Russian-backed disinformation circulating within the US? By its very nature, social media-based disinformation is inextricably linked with existing complex societal cleavages, the First Amendment, and politics.