Tyrants on Twitter Audiobook Libro.fm

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A look inside the weaponization of social media and an innovative proposal for protecting Western democracies from information warfare

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 US election David L Sloss explores Russias use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe as well as Chinas 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 systemif implemented by legislation in the United Stateswould 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 is a mustlisten in a time when disinformation campaigns threaten to undermine democracy