Digital Influence Mercenaries: Profits and Power Through Information Warfare by James J. F. Forest
English | April 15th, 2022 | ISBN: 1682477223 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 1.61 MB
In today's online attention economy, supply and demand have created a rapidly growing market for firms and entrepreneurs using the tactics, tools, and strategies of digital influence warfare to gain profit and power. This book focuses on the more malicious types of online activity such as deception, provocation, and a host of other dirty tricks conducted by these "digital influence mercenaries." They can be located anywhere with an Internet connection—Brazil, China, Iran, Macedonia, Russia, Zimbabe —and the targets of their influence efforts can be whomever and wherever they are paid to attack.