A nation must think before it acts.
For many years, FPRI Fox Fellow Clint Watts has been tracking jihadis online; in 2014, he stumbled across Russian trolls and in 2016 initiated a series of essays on his research findings, warning of the Russian attempt to erode trust in democratic institutions.
How Russia Dominates Your Twitter to Promote Lies (and Trump, too), Daily Beast, August 6, 2016
Trolling for Trump: How Russia is Trying to Destroy our Democracy, War on the Rocks, November 6, 2016
How Russia Wins an Election, Politico Magazine, December 13, 2016
Can the Michelin Model Fix Fake News?, Daily Beast, January 22, 2017
Is Trump Russia’s Manchurian Candidate? No, and Here’s Why, Geopoliticus: The FPRI Blog, March 6, 2017
Fake News and Russian Information Operations, Main Line Briefings, March 9, 2017