“World War III will be a guerrilla information war, with no divisions between military and civilian participation.” — Marshall McLuhan, 1970

Ali Baba and the forty bots. A little earlier this month, as Donald Trump turned on Congressman Thomas Massie for reasons I hadn’t been following and — five or six major political controversies into the week — no longer had the energy to care about, Gateway Pundit’s Elijah Schaffer posted: “I would like to confirm that there were financial offers in the past to attack @RepThomasMassie here on X. Some took the money. I got offered the money as well.”