How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante

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🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante describes in this alarming talk, the real target of anyone looking to influence geopolitics is dastardly simple: it's you.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a special archive presentation of TED Talks Daily.
0:05.2	This talk features cyberspace analyst Laura Galante, recorded live at TED 2017.
0:13.8	Let's say you despise Western democracy.
0:19.2	Democracy in all its trappings,
0:21.6	free elections, town halls,
0:23.6	endless debates about the proper role of government,
0:26.6	they're too messy,
0:28.6	to unpredictable,
0:29.6	too constraining for your taste.
0:32.6	And the way these democracies band together
0:35.6	and lecture everyone else about individual rights and freedoms,
0:39.2	it gets under your skin.
0:42.3	So what to do about it?
0:44.8	You can call out the hypocrisy and failures of Western democracies
0:49.5	and explain how your ways better,
0:52.8	but that's never really worked for you.
0:55.5	What if you could get the people
0:58.0	whose support is the very foundation of these democracies
1:01.4	to start questioning the system?
1:05.2	Make the idea occur in their own minds
1:07.6	that democracy and its institutions are failing them,
1:11.7	their elite or corrupt puppet masters,
	...

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