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Tyrants on Twitter - Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare (Hardcover)
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Tyrants on Twitter - Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Law and Politics
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A look inside the weaponization of social media, and an innovative
proposal for protecting Western democracies from information
warfare. When Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram were first
introduced to the public, their mission was simple: they were
designed to help people become more connected to each other. Social
media became a thriving digital space by giving its users the
freedom to share whatever they wanted with their friends and
followers. Unfortunately, these same digital tools are also easy to
manipulate. As exemplified by Russia's interference in the 2016
U.S. presidential election, authoritarian states can exploit social
media to interfere with democratic governance in open societies.
Tyrants on Twitter is the first detailed analysis of how Chinese
and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and
YouTube to subvert the liberal international order. In addition to
examining the 2016 U.S. election, David L. Sloss explores Russia's
use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in
Europe, as well as China's use of social media and other digital
tools to meddle in Western democracies and buttress autocratic
rulers around the world. Sloss calls for cooperation among
democratic governments to create a new transnational system for
regulating social media to protect Western democracies from
information warfare. Drawing on his professional experience as an
arms control negotiator, he outlines a novel system of
transnational governance that Western democracies can enforce by
harmonizing their domestic regulations. And drawing on his academic
expertise in constitutional law, he explains why that system—if
implemented by legislation in the United States—would be
constitutionally defensible, despite likely First Amendment
objections. With its critical examination of information warfare
and its proposal for practical legislative solutions to fight back,
this book is essential reading in a time when disinformation
campaigns threaten to undermine democracy.
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