Read the footnotes: What Natalie Grant Wraga taught about disinformation

Israeli security officials recently warned that Iran may attempt to influence Israel’s upcoming elections through coordinated disinformation campaigns on social media and other digital platforms. Their warning took me back more than 50 years to a remarkable woman who spent her life studying exactly these tactics — long before the internet, artificial intelligence, bots, or trolls existed.

Most Americans have never heard of Natalie Grant Wraga, who preferred to be called Natalie Grant. Yet the method she taught is essential wherever information is presented — on television, in newspapers, acros...