In AICGS’ new report “Defending Democracy in the Cybersphere,” Nad’a Kovalcikova calls for strengthening public debate in the face of ongoing digital propaganda.
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, we have been increasingly facing non-military threats, including digital disinformation campaigns, which have a world-wide effect. In the context of national and international security, we can consider disinformation and hostile digital propaganda as acute, asymmetrical, chaotic, and multi-polar threats. The cyber world is the new frontier, the new battle space for serious competition between state actors as well as non-state actors. The techniques that can be performed in the digital information …read more