EPISODE · Feb 19, 2018 · 9 MIN
Did Russia Affect the 2016 Election? It’s Now Undeniable
from Security, Spoken · host WIRED
For some time, there has been a conflation of issues—the hacking and leaking of illegally obtained information versus propaganda and disinformation; cyber-security issues and the hacking of elections systems versus information operations and information warfare; paid advertising versus coercive messaging or psychological operations—when discussing “Russian meddling” in the 2016 US elections. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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For some time, there has been a conflation of issues—the hacking and leaking of illegally obtained information versus propaganda and disinformation; cyber-security issues and the hacking of elections systems versus information operations and information warfare; paid advertising versus coercive messaging or psychological operations—when discussing “Russian meddling” in the 2016 US elections.
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Did Russia Affect the 2016 Election? It’s Now Undeniable
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