By the time this column goes off the press, the country's presidential election campaign season shall have officially started. From a social media standpoint, I get the feeling that the country's cyberspace will soon be experiencing a siege not unlike the massive zombie pandemic that threatened the world in the 2013 horror film "World War Z," the only difference being that well-equipped and well-funded social media trolls rather than zombies jumping out from their graves will be doing the siege.
In the national interest, the presidential hopefuls need to mutually call a total ceasefire to the utterly destructive misinformation and disinformation war being waged for them by their social media troll armies. TROLL IMAGE FROM OPENTHEMAGAZINE.COM; SUPERIMPOSED LIGHTNING FROM GALLERY.YOPRICEVILLE.COM