Title: Analyzing Russian Information Warfare and Influence Operations | Global Security Review
Headings: Analyzing Russian Information Warfare and Influence Operations
Analyzing Russian Information Warfare and Influence Operations
Social media and the access it provides to voter data give Russian active measures the ability to influence the outcome of an election
What is Information Warfare?
The Cyber Component
The Security Gap
Sophia Porotsky

Content: the voting machines, when in fact Russia was focusing its efforts on manipulating the voters (facilitated by social media). The outcome is the manifestation of the diverging understandings of information warfare between Russia and the West. This is the first instalment examining Russian information warfare, the use of social media, and the US election. Part two, Facebook, Compromised: How Russia Manipulated U.S. Voters with Social Media delves deeper into the mechanics of Russian disinformation and misinformation strategies; revealing how they manifest online and influence the electorate. Third, The Trump Campaign’s Exploitation of Social Media , explains how the campaign benefited from Twitter bots, trolls, and microtargeted Facebook messages. Last, Cambridge Analytica: the Darker Side of Big Data, investigates the involvement of an ethically dubious “election management” firm in the 2016 presidential elections. Sophia Porotsky
Information Security Russia United States