The red web: the Kremlinʹs wars on the internet

After the Moscow protests in 2011-2012, Vladimir Putin became terrified of the internet as a dangerous means for political mobilization and uncensored public debate. Only four years later, the Kremlin used that same platform to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in the United States. How did thi...

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Main Authors: Soldatov, Andrej Alekseevič 1975- (Author), Borogan, Irina Petrovna 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York PublicAffairs August 2017
Edition:first trade paperback edition
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Summary:After the Moscow protests in 2011-2012, Vladimir Putin became terrified of the internet as a dangerous means for political mobilization and uncensored public debate. Only four years later, the Kremlin used that same platform to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in the United States. How did this transformation happen? The Red Web is a groundbreaking history of the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state that exposes just how easily the internet can become the means for repression, control, and geopolitical warfare. In this bold, updated edition, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan offer a perspective from Moscow with new and previously unreported details of the 2016 hacking operation, telling the story of how Russia came to embrace the disruptive potential of the web and interfere with democracy around the world
Item Description:"Originally published in hardcover and ebook in September 2015"...T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-383) and index
Physical Description:xi, 400 Seiten
ISBN:9781610399579
9781610395731

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