When you post on social media, what do you hope to happen? A lot of likes, some comments and shares, maybe for it to even go viral. That is something you and ISIS, Taylor Swift, and Russian trolls have in common; we each want to use social media for our advantage. How is that changing war? The we wage it? How about ourselves?
With scholar and strategist P.W. Singer, we delve into these issues and reach some fascinating and scary conclusions about the current state of conflict on the internet, and what each and every one of us ought to do about it. Singer is a Senior Fellow at the think tank New America, expert in the "21st century warfare," and author of several popular books including, Wired For War, Ghost Fleet, and most recently, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media: https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743
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