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A Conversation With Clint Watts on Influence and Information in the Social Media Era
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A Conversation With Clint Watts on Influence and Information in the Social Media Era
FromWar on the Rocks
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Jun 19, 2018
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Podcast episode
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How has our understanding of Russian influence operations evolved since the 2016 election? Just a few days before Trump was elected president, Clint Watts, Andrew Weisburd, and J.M. Berger sounded the alarm in a War on the Rocks article about the Kremlin's efforts to undermine American democracy. Since then, the world has learned a lot more about how Russia influenced the election and, more generally, the continued dangers of influence campaigns and information warfare. Clint's new book, Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News, is an effort to help us think through these issues. He recently spoke with Usha about his efforts to track and understand Russian social media trolling, what studying jihadi terrorists taught him about online propaganda, and what the government, tech companies, and the public can do to deal with this difficult problem. Read the November 2016 War on the Rocks article here: https://warontherocks.com/2016/11/trolling-for-trump-how-russia-is-trying-to-destroy-our-democracy/ Order Clint's book here: https://amzn.to/2I4NKbt Image: powtac/Flickr
Released:
Jun 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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