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Hacking Democracy: Power and Propaganda in the Digital Age

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Hacking Democracy: Power and Propaganda in the Digital Age
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The internet’s ability to create and share information can be exploited to churn out a sea of misinformation or build large bodies of intelligence through the extraction of private data. As reports have long stated and reporting confirms: both state and corporate actors are leveraging social media and news outlets for their own political advantage and commercial profit – areas where legal boundaries and awareness are poorly defined – or transgressing against their institutional functions and causing huge collateral damage in the process. Political propaganda and cyberattacks have global reach, low costs and high deniability – but be aware: tracing and attributing sources is hard if you...