How Western Democracies Can Combat Russia's Ukraine Disinformation - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
They should take a page from Putin’s own playbook.
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They should take a page from Putin’s own playbook.
Deterrence & Foreign Policy Deterrence
Deterrence & Foreign Policy Deterrence
Alicia Wanless is the director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations.
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” This accidentally poignant cartoon [1] from The New Yorker in 1993 kicked off a long-standing tension between the internet and truth. Nearly 20 years later, when a 22-year old actress pretended to quit her job using a dry erase board and company-wide email it became apparent that many still believed the aphorism “if it’s on the internet, it must be true [2]”. In the 2010s, the seeming war between the internet and truth grew to unprecedented heights. The buildup to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections brought home to far more people, n...