For example, laws that would mandate that platforms require greater
disclosure of
information from users and advertisers might be quickly
rendered a dead letter as perpetrators of these campaigns ﬁnd new ways to
mask their identity. Particularly in the case of sophisticated disinformation
campaigns of the most concern, such as those seen in the 2016 presidential
election, perpetrators of these efforts may have the means by which to mask
their involvement through corporate shells and other aliases (Lapowsky 2017).
We might expect in this case that deﬁning a ﬁxed set of reporting requirements
would be easily evaded.

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