In rural Madison, West Virginia, the primary lesson on a fall day at Scott High School is on lies and liars.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t fall prey to it,바카라 게임 웹사이트� cautions the instructor, who wears a suit and tie while speaking to about 150 juniors and seniors during a late-morning assembly.That guest speaker is West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, the state바카라 게임 웹사이트�s chief elections official.The retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel is on an unusual mission across the Mountain State바카라 게임 웹사이트�s 55 counties, visiting dozens of high schools on a quest ahead of next year바카라 게임 웹사이트�s presidential election to reach America바카라 게임 웹사이트�s youngest voters 바카라 게임 웹사이트� before the enemy does."You are on the front line of this war with Russia,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Warner, a Republican, declares to the students in a booming voice. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The social media war 바카라 게임 웹사이트� they have targeted YOU." Part preacher, part prophetIn exactly one year, on Nov. 3, 2020, Americans will pick a president.Warner sees the coming election as part of an ever-expanding battle for truth. And he바카라 게임 웹사이트�s determined to warn his 17- and 18-year-old constituents.In this, he is part preacher, part prophet: teaching about disinformation ads, posts and videos while predicting the escalation to come."We know it's going to happen in 2020. And the best defense is you being educated,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Warner says in the middle of his PowerPoint presentation, which shows students examples of foreign influence campaigns on the most popular social networks and explains how to spot the deception.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I get pretty incensed about this, alright?" Warner tells the students.Below, view a portion of the disinformation presentation shown to high schools in West Virginia; courtesy: West Virginia Secretary of State바카라 게임 웹사이트�s office Later, in an interview in his Capitol office in Charleston, Warner readily agrees there is an 바카라 게임 웹사이트�onslaught바카라 게임 웹사이트� of disinformation targeting Americans seeking to divide and confuse. He then pivots to the No. 1 lesson he seeks to impart during his hour-long presentations at schools.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I tell the students this: If you are moved emotionally by what comes across your social media, that is a red flag바카라 게임 웹사이트� If you are moved emotionally, stop. When it's too good to be true, it probably is." 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know what to believe바카라 게임 웹사이트�After the disinformation assembly at Scott High School, seven students 바카라 게임 웹사이트� all juniors and seniors 바카라 게임 웹사이트� gathered in the library to share with the Hearst Television National Investigative Unit what they learned.바카라 게임 웹사이트�It's actually very scary,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Jessica Fleming, 18, said. Austin Williams, 17, said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�It was kind of unbelievable to me.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Chloe Older, 18, said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don't know what to believe바카라 게임 웹사이트� among the political ads and stories shared by her 바카라 게임 웹사이트�click happy바카라 게임 웹사이트� relatives that increasingly fill up her Facebook feed.When asked how many of them think they바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve shared false information on social media, every single student raised their hands; they nodded their heads when asked if it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s 바카라 게임 웹사이트�just easier to share바카라 게임 웹사이트� than to fact-check. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The most surprising thing today,바카라 게임 웹사이트� explained 16-year-old senior Chase Caserta, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�is not the fact that misinformation is spread so frequently, but that misinformation is not a fault of ignorance but a product of another country 바카라 게임 웹사이트� intentionally trying to harm us.바카라 게임 웹사이트�All of the students said they didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t realize information could be used as a weapon against them until watching Warner바카라 게임 웹사이트�s disinformation presentation.One of the biggest surprises to the students was the existence, sophistication, and prevalence of 바카라 게임 웹사이트�deepfake바카라 게임 웹사이트� videos, clips digitally edited to put words in someone바카라 게임 웹사이트�s mouth that the person did not actually say.In this deepfake video, below, the actor Jordan Peele provides the words for a digitally altered video of President Obama; Courtesy: WV Secretary of State바카라 게임 웹사이트�s Office "It was just like: 'Can I believe anything anymore?' It was just crazy watching it,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Older recalled.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Like, have any of the ones I've seen on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook바카라 게임 웹사이트� are they true? How do I check if these videos have been manipulated myself?"Politicians allowed to lie on social mediaVoters won't always get the truth from the social media companies.Facebook now says it will let politicians 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but not political groups 바카라 게임 웹사이트� post lies in ads without fact-checking them, saying it's not the tech company's role to "intervene."But that stance drew scorn from Capitol Hill during a hearing Oct. 23 before the House Financial Services Committee.바카라 게임 웹사이트� gives politicians a license to lie,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said.Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) asked Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Why should politicians that lead our country be held to a lower standard?바카라 게임 웹사이트�Zuckerberg, the hearing바카라 게임 웹사이트�s sole witness, began to respond, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�This isn't about helping the politicians. It's about바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트� when Rep. Tlaib interrupted: 바카라 게임 웹사이트�But, Mr. Zuckerberg, it is hate speech. It is hate and it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s leading to violence and death threats in my office.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Twitter disclosed on Oct. 15 world leaders can break its rules due to the "public interest" value. But in a reversal just two weeks later, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced in a tweet that the company would ban all political advertising on its platform worldwide effective Nov. 22.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Dorsey wrote. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Snapchat told the National Investigative Unit in a statement that all political ads on its platform are reviewed, but it would not say if they're fact-checked.Social media manipulation doublesThe threat is real.In a recent report, the Oxford Internet Institute found organized social media manipulation has more than doubled in just two years, with Russia, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela launching foreign influence operations on Facebook and Twitter.It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s that ever-multiplying threat 바카라 게임 웹사이트� and the prospect of not-yet-deployed digital division campaigns 바카라 게임 웹사이트� that is bringing West Virginia바카라 게임 웹사이트�s elections chief to campuses like Scott High School."That's what they're doing to America: they're pushing the fringes further out on the left and the right to get us to fight with one another,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Warner said. National effort launches The disinformation lesson plan is soon going national.On Nov. 12, the National Association of Secretaries of State will launch a 50-state campaign using the hashtag: #TrustedInfo2020, according to people familiar with the effort.Individual NASS members 바카라 게임 웹사이트� who act as the chief election officials in 40 of the 50 states 바카라 게임 웹사이트� will determine how to incorporate the messaging in ways that work best for their voters, those sources said.The U.S. House last month passed a bill called the SHIELD Act, short for Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy, that would require more transparency in online political ads. No vote has yet been scheduled in the Senate.President Donald Trump in September signed an executive order that could impose sanctions on countries found to have spread election disinformation.For the students in West Virginia, deleting the deception now becomes the toughest homework of all."If we want to better the country, we need to make better decisions and research ourselves,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Fleming, the senior at Scott High School.Added Kaylee Ferrell, also a senior: "Now I feel this is an obligation of me as a young adult.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Below, see more of what the seven students from Scott High School in Madison, West Virginia, said during a group interview with Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert:Travis Sherwin and April Chunko contributed to this report. Know of election security vulnerabilities or concerns? Send investigative tips, information, and documents about this topic to the National Investigative Unit at investigate@hearst.com.