Are school "SWATting" calls discord attacks?

During the course of the pandemic, we have seen an extraordinary rise in
social misbehaviour, in a variety of forms.  (A friend has attributed much
of it to aspects of grief, and, having been forced to study the issue
recently, I tend to concur, and feel that this should be studied further.)
At the same time (possibly coincidentally, possibly not) intelligence
agencies have noted a rise in what are being referred to as "discord"
attacks, where foreign nation-state actors are …

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