Lowell Lecture
Tyrants On Twitter
Date & Time
Sept. 6, 2022
Location
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472
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Speaker(s)
David L. Sloss is an educator, author, and national security expert. His latest book, Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare focuses on Russian and Chinese information warfare. Sloss is currently Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. Before entering academia, in 2008, he spent nine years in the federal government, working on U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations and nuclear proliferation issues.
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Contact
Mary Stack (, 6174952727)
TYRANTS ON TWITTER details how by investing heavily in global media and information technology systems, Russia and China are undermining democracy. This book provides a careful analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms for the sole purpose of subverting the liberal international order, both in America and Europe. Professor Sloss demonstrates how by injecting massive amounts of propaganda and disinformation into social media platforms, Putin and Xi Jinping destabilize the system. He examines the 2016 US election and also explores Russia’s use of foreign infiltration to meddle with Western democratic elections.