Social media empowers communities of activists, as well as groups of extremists and abusers, to discover each other and coordinate their activity. The same tools can be used to spread political messages, both by legitimate communities and by disingenuous actors—even foreign states seeking to interfere in the electoral process of another country. That’s the environment we find ourselves in today, as the United States, NATO, the EU, and their (potential) allies are under attack from a Russian campaign of information warfare . In this chapter, we’ll unpack ...
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