What if these campaigns, which seem to be increasingly integrated into strategies of interference and power waged by external actors, were actually able to distort the election results and therefore violate the sovereignty of states? – asks Marine Guillaume, Digital Ambassador Deputy at the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Lecturer at the École Polytechnique.
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Hybrid CoE Strategic Analysis
Hybrid CoE Strategic Analysis 16: Combating the manipulation of information – a French case
by Marine Guillaume
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