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    LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
    LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
    LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
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    LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

    Written by P. W. Singer and Emerson Brooking

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking. Social media are transforming war, crime, and diplomacy. Terrorists can broadcast attacks, "Twitter wars" produce real-world casualties, and enemy movements can be tracked on social platforms. War, tech, and politics have blurred into a new battle space that's as close as our own phones. P. W. Singer and Emerson Brooking tackle the mind-bending questions that arise when war goes online. In this world, ISIS copies the Twitter tactics of Taylor Swift, an accountant in Georgia foils terrorists thousands of miles away, and OSINT (open source intelligence) outpaces other forms of espionage. What can be kept secret in a world of networks? Does social media expose the truth or bury it? And what role do ordinary people now play in international conflicts? Delving ever deeper into the darkest corners of the web, we meet the unexpected warriors of social media, such as the rapper turned jihadist PR czar and the Russian hipsters who wage unceasing infowars against the West. Finally, looking to the crucial years ahead, LikeWar outlines a radical new paradigm for understanding and defending against the unprecedented threats of our networked world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781980007241
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    P. W. Singer

    P. W. SINGER is an expert on twenty-first-century warfare. His award-winning nonfiction books include the New York Times bestseller Wired for War.

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    • 1/5
      The author, while knowledgeable and capable of writing a well researched history, is intent on spreading his hateful, inaccurate version of political reality. Sad really, I was 12 chapters in and just couldn’t take his unfounded half truths
    • 5/5
      Eye opening must read for the entire world! Start now!
    • 5/5
      A great resource to educate yourself on the propaganda infection afflicting social media.
    • 1/5
      It's like "pulling teeth" to get anything out of Like War. The authors should have been Brooking Singer. Then the BS would be obvious. The back ground of these two tells you most of what you need to know. They are Ivy League/semi ivy grads. They make their money of the Military industrial Complex. In their spare time they work out ways to go to war with Russia. They love big government. The start and the end are rants about Trump. Even 75 years after WW two. these two moroons. claim Persing and Ike saved the free world. When in fact Pershing help fire up Hitler and Stalin. Ike brought on the cold war and pressed American draftees into the war in Vietnam. The terrible internet allows hate speech. The terrible internet in fact hates pro capitalist Americans. You can be an islamic terrorist and be on face book but you cannot be a maga man. Face book, twitter will kick them off. Trump is off. He's off because the left doesn't dare allow a point of view that does not praise the administrators of big ass government. If you hate trump then this book is for you. If you like big gov. and Big tech this book is for you. If you like war this book is for you. If you respect yourself and believe you have a right to self ownership. This work sucks.

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    • 2/5
      This book is massively biased. Although its main concept on the importance of social media to away opinion is sound, it fails to touch on the main point, which is how governments and other powerful interests attempt to weaponize social media to astroturf their own citizens into believing things that aren't real like Trump Russian Collusion or believing things that are real such as Joe and Hunter Biden corruption aren't. The examples it cites like Trump Very fine people hoax are all now probably false. I wouldn't waste my time on this. Going through the book made me wonder if powerful people publish fake books as the intellectual underpinnings of false media campaigns as a sort of intellectual underpinnings of false narratives.

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    • 3/5
      There's not a coherent narrative to this book - much like the social media it describes, it jumps from topic to topic and from timespan to timespan awkwardly. 100+ pages of notes.