information space

Every episode of “The Paper” features an opening credits montage of archival footage from the pre-Internet era, before the 24-hour news cycle and handheld devices ruled the information space.

In her newsletter, historian Heather Cox Richardson offered this context for Donald Trump and his forces’ coordinated distraction campaign and attempts to dominate the information space:

Donald Trump is also a high-dominance leader who is masterful in his ability to manipulate the media and dominate the information space.

Cutting funding to these outlets is a "reward to dictators and despots, including the Chinese Communist Party, who would like nothing better than to have their influence go unchecked in the information space", he said.

"Doppelganger's signature methodology is deploying very large numbers of disposable social media accounts to flood the information space around particular stories," he told the BBC.