Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know by Kathleen Hall Jamieson – Non-fiction Books #3

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An investigation into the potential influence of Russian hackers on the result of the 2016 presidential election. It’s scary.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson – Who is she?

She is a professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania. She has several decades of experience in the field and now at the age of 71 is just as straight forward as ever. She dives into whether or not Russian hackers changed the 2016 election. Don’t want to hold you up getting to the content, so if you like to read more about her: go here.

Content

To put it mildly: She doesn’t think Trump would be president without the help of Russian hackers intervention. Though the process of intervention has to get around one or two corners. She says: “I’m not arguing that Russians pulled the voting levers. I’m arguing that they persuaded enough people to either vote a certain way or not vote at all.”

How did Russian hackers do it?

In summary: Russian hackers got to re-frame and dominate the direction of where certain discussions were heading. She shows that especially in releasing the Clinton E-Mails that Wikileaks got from the Russian hackers the public opinion among certain groups changed so much, that it would turn the state towards the republicans. A combination of hacking, propaganda and clever timed slices of information orchestrated by the Russians definitely had a countable impact on the election result and possibly even turned it for Trump.

You better get into the details reading the 250 or so pages yourself.

Enjoy Jamieson’s book: amazon.com | amazon.co.uk | amazon.de no german translation, yet.

Maybe you want to read the earlier published Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff as well:

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