Headline is misleading. But the reality is that Facebook knows who these people are and knows they shouldn’t be posting content on political groups all the way across the world.

And doesn’t care.

Unfortunately, one of the primary reasons disinformation spreads so readily is that authoritative sources are beholden to corporatized interests. e.g. the end-users have only the choice of which lies they prefer to listen to, while real truth is virtually nowhere to be found, at least in the sense that it is not among those messages being blasted out at people.

Hrm, I suppose this could even be said to be a wider sense of the concept of "the Algorithm" (moar profits=good), even in the news article creation sense rather than the more typical news aggregation/social media meaning. In the latter, existing articles are selected in such a way as to maximize advertising sales, whereas in the former... pretty much identically the same, except a few things (notably titles) can be changed to better sell the content.

The state and these governments serve the wealthy. Who manipulate the media against the people. Why would the states go against the people they serve. Whom to be clear when I say the people they serve I don't mean the people. I'm speaking about the wealthy.

There probably are information campaigns. But disinformation has a massive advantage because it doesn't need facts, you just need catchy slogans with no basis in reality. They spread much more easily.

Why? There's no crime here.

Make the fine so gobsmacking that it hurts them enough to the point where they seriously ponder wether they’ll ever recover from that.

Make the fine 60% of their annual global revenue.

Make the corporation, the moral entity, understand that allowing such practices will result in the moral equivalent of getting close to being mortally wounded when caught, or will be if they get hit again.

This is how they will stop.

Otherwise, a "10 million settlement" merely becomes the operating cost of doing "business".

Make the fine a percentage of voting stock for each infraction. Too many infractions and a perpetrator has voluntarily donated their organization to the country it violated.

Literally no, or rather I should say, if only that were the case!!

The literal definition of the word moron is a mental age between 8-12, or in terms of IQ score between 51-70.

Whereas propaganda can affect people with literal PhDs, trained in the craft of problem-solving and discernment of the true hidden behind many sometimes conflicting facts.

Of course, I am aware that you meant the term more in the colloquial sense of "foolish or notably stupid person". But therein lies the danger due to such ambiguity.

We should think of propaganda less dismissively imho, as in not something that mere morons would fall for, and rather as something that you or I and everyone we know or even do not know could easily fall for as well.

Propaganda affects not merely morons (implication: we here are safe) but PEOPLE.