Exploiting Divisions: Misinformation and Manipulation

Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Center For Cyber and Homeland Security at The George Washington University, and author of Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News.

• How our own cognitive biases are manipulated in an effort to destabilize trust in each other and our very way of life.
• How hostile entities like ISIS use social media for propaganda and recruitment.
• Why Western governments can't, even with their relatively infinite wealth of resources, beat ragtag Somali Twitter pirates and ISIS shills.
• How bias creates social media bubbles, what forms they take, and why this is dangerous.
• How we can fix these issues or at least mitigate the effect they have on our lives.
• And much more...

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