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Russia Disinformation and Cyberwarfare

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In recent days some experts have observed that Russia’s annual budget for cyberwarfare is less than the price of a single American F-35 jet . Which weapon has done more to shape world events? America might have the most well-financed military in the world, but if we’re to maintain our national security we’ll need to shift our way of thinking about how warfare is waged. While the exact damage done by Russia’s interference is still not fully understood, it is quite clear that their information war was effective in transforming America’s political debate and dividing its population. Knowing what we know now about the detriment of misinformation and the DNC hackings it’s hard to imagine that at one point in recent history many considered the threat from Russia’s “troll army” to be laughable. Many ignored it outright as a juvenile attempt to assert a fraction of the global influence that the former soviet union once held. However, the more and more we hear about the extent of the d