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    Mark Z. Barabak: It's not just Russia and China targeting Washington. Disinformation is a problem in local races too

    Michelle Petersen was sitting in her home office a few days before the November election when her computer began blowing up with urgent messages. The PTA president and political novice was running for a seat on the San Ramon Valley school board in this affluent slice of the east Bay Area. Supporters wanted to alert her: A report was circulating — on social media and an email blast to elected ...
    by Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Dec 29, 2022 3 minutes
    PTA mom Michelle Petersen was targeted in a disinformation campaign that may have cost her a school board seat.

    Michelle Petersen was sitting in her home office a few days before the November election when her computer began blowing up with urgent messages.

    The PTA president and political novice was running for a seat on the San Ramon Valley school board in this affluent slice of the east Bay Area. Supporters wanted to alert her: A report was circulating — on social media and an email blast to elected officials throughout the county — that Petersen had lost her firefighting job over a phony disability claim.

    That's not true. Petersen retired, voluntarily, after her

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