13 October 2017

BALTICS BATTLE RUSSIA IN ONLINE DISINFORMATION WAR


From the hacking attack on Estonia in 2007 to the fake news targeting the NATO battalions on the alliance’s eastern border in 2017 — the Baltic states have been the bull’s-eye of Russian-backed digital warfare.

Ten years ago, Estonians awoke to find the country paralyzed by a mass cyberattack and in the grip of street riots, with Russian protesters traveling across the border to participate against “Nazism” and “blasphemy.” The Estonian goverment’s decision to relocate a memorial to Soviet soldiers in the capital Tallinn had sparked the biggest crisis since the country’s independence.

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