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How Online Fights Affect Real World Battlefields

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Your posts matter more than you think. Social media has changed the way wars are fought and the internet has become a new battlefield. 


Twitter may be dying, but it still matters an awful lot to policy makers. TikTok is ascendent, but often because its content can be repurposed on other platforms. Telegram can give you the news on the ground, but only if you trust the sources.


With all this information flowing and everyone motivated by personal politics, who can you trust?


This week, Emerson T. Brooking joins Matthew and Emily to explain how online discussion shapes the reality on the ground in conflict zones. Brooking is a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council and the co-author of LikeWar, a book about the weaponization of social media. 


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0:00.0

Tannan, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.4

It's a unit system.

0:12.7

I know this.

0:14.7

It's how all the files of the whole park.

0:16.9

It tells you everything.

0:18.6

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.4

Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

0:29.3

I'm curious how, like, in your world, when does everyone's brain shut down?

0:38.7

You know what I mean?

0:39.8

Because it's like this...

0:40.7

I'm already in this post-haul at the Thanksgiving space

0:43.8

where I'm feeling myself pulled, like, into Christmas

0:47.4

and into, like, not paying attention to anything.

0:50.8

Like, trying to put off big projects.

0:52.7

And I'm wondering if in your world something

0:55.1

similar happens and when it happens. Yeah. Well, the whole DC policy space really does

1:02.3

follow like an academic calendar. And actually, I guess thinking more through it.

1:11.7

So, like, I went to University of Pennsylvania.

1:14.1

So in addition to, like, academic calendar, like, Jewish holidays also kind of were major points.

1:21.1

And I think that's also the case in D.C. as well.

1:23.1

So, like, things don't really get rolling until, like, mid-September.

1:26.3

Then there's Thanksgiving.

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