<p>In 2013, a Russian journalist walked into a St. Petersburg startup looking for a job. What he found was the frontline of a new kind of war—an information war fought not with bullets but with online chaos.</p><br><p>Today, those tactics have gone global. Online disinformation floods our social feeds, shapes our politics, and fractures our societies. Authoritarian states are waging an invisible war against democracies like Canada, and we’re dangerously unprepared.</p><br><p><a href="https://www.stephenmarche.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephen Marche</a> speaks with University of Waterloo's Bessma Momani and Taiwanese fact-checking pioneer Billion Lee to ask the hard questions: How can we stop losing the information war? Do we even stand a chance?</p><br><p>Featuring (<em>in order of appearance</em>): <a href="https://www.rferl.org/author/andrei-soshnikov/oy-uq_" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Andrei Soshnikov</a>, <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/political-science/people-profiles/bessma-momani" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bessma Momani </a>& <a href="https://en.cofacts.tw/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billion Lee</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>