On January 28 2011 WikiLeaks released documents from a cache of US
State Department cables stolen the previous year. The Daily
Telegraph in London published one of the memos with an article
headlined 'Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel
leaders behind uprising'. The effect of the revelation was
immediate, helping set in motion an aggressive counter-narrative to
the nascent story of the Arab Spring. The article featured a
cluster of virulent commentators all pushing the same story: the
CIA, George Soros and Hillary Clinton were attempting to take over
Egypt. Many of these commentators were trolls, some of whom
reappeared in 2016 to help elect Donald J. Trump as President of
the United States. This book tells the story of how a
proxy-communications war ignited and hijacked the Arab uprisings
and how individuals on the ground, on air and online worked to
shape history.
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