Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week –

1. How Silicon Valley’s Russia crackdown proves its power – and its threat (The Guardian)
2. Using Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)
3. Ukraine: Spam website set up to reach millions of Russians (BBC News)
4. The White House is briefing TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine (The Washington Post)
5. As war in Ukraine evolves, so do disinformation tactics (Politico)
6. China’s tech platforms become propaganda tools in Putin’s war (The Financial Times)
7. Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders (Reuters)
8. 89% of global cyberattacks are aimed at Russia or Ukraine (Cyber News)
9. Cryptocurrencies in a time of war (Reuters)

Some ironic reading- The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama