TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore, Martin 
TI  - DEMOCRACY HACKED : POLITICAL TURMOIL AND INFORMATION WARFARE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
SN  - 9789387894556
U1  - 321.8073 
PY  - 2018////01/01
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Context
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Hacktivism
KW  - Information warfare
KW  - Internet -- Political aspects
KW  - United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
N1  - Summary	Democracies are being gamed. Authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers are exploiting our digital infrastructure and the vulnerabilities in our democratic system to influence our politics and elections. In just a few years, it has become a perpetual information war. Inherently unstable and prone to wild volatility, our digital ecosystem has at its heart a vacuum open to the influence of those with the motivation, money or expertise to exploit it. Played successfully it can lead to unprecedented swings of public opinion. Martin Moore explains how hackers interfere in our democratic processes and why they can do it and outlines what we need to do to save democracy for the digital age. This is a story about active measures, data mining, spy-ops, mercenaries, micro targeting, the alt-right, plutocrats, the collapse of local news, Silicon Valley, Trump, trolling, surveillance - and you
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