This is Cyber "War" Today -- Information Operations
This is Cyber "War" Today -- Information Operations by Paul Rosenzweig Tuesday August 30 th , 2016 at 1:01 PM Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices 1 Share The New York Times has a report today that is a comprehensive look at Russian disinformation campaigns. It begins: With a vigorous national debate underway on whether Sweden should enter a military partnership with NATO, officials in Stockholm suddenly encountered an unsettling problem: a flood of distorted and outright false information on social media, confusing public perceptions of the issue. The claims were alarming: If Sweden, a non-NATO member, signed the deal, the alliance would stockpile secret nuclear weapons on Swedish soil; NATO could attack Russia from Sweden without government approval; NATO soldiers, immune from prosecution, could rape Swedish women without fear of criminal charges. They were all false, but the disinformation had begun spilling into the t