Either we successfully manage to educate the majority of Americans on how to apply critical thinking skills to what they see on the Internet, or we balkanize the 'net and try to keep the bad actors out (or at least force them to attack from a location we have legal jurisdiction over). I feel like this is just one more nail in the coffin of the free worldwide Internet.
I really don't see any good solutions. It is super difficult to defend against entities acting in bad faith when their cost of their actions is essentially zero.
What makes you think the bad actors aren't already within "our" legal jurisdiction. The "Foreign" part of misinformation campaigns is a red herring. Case in point TFA is more likely the doing of domestic neoliberals than foreign actors.
People will not be educated because they see right past “truth” and look for their “group” or “tribe”. Like a deeper truth. (Autocorrect suggested deeper trump.)
I really don't see any good solutions. It is super difficult to defend against entities acting in bad faith when their cost of their actions is essentially zero.