Each week, I will post a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- Israel’s secret weapon- 800 social media accounts (The Jerusalem Post)
- Trump’s Un-American failure to protect internet freedom (Wired)
- Technologies changing diplomatic practice: Pre and post Covid19 reality (ORF)
- Digital diplomacy changes strategies in foreign policy prioritization (CNN)
- The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Diplomacy in the Covid-19 world (Pass Blue)
- The irrelevance of Soft Power (e-ir)
- Two things that Facebook still needs to do to reduce the spread of misinformation (The New York Times)
- China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits (BBC News)
- The era of full spectrum war is here (Foreign Policy)
- Diplomacy after Covid: No looking back (The interpreter)
- Politico’s analysis of the EU Commission’s Twittersphere
Some light reading- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy