No Peace at All – The Weapons of the Digital Warriors

No Peace at All – The Weapons of Digital Warriors: Lecture, Reading, Discussion with the Father of Modern Fake News and Hybrid Warfare, Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead! Is he really? Or is Putin's chef and Wagner chief still alive? What is truth, what is lie in the 21st century? And how are facts verifiable in the digital age? We will examine social networks as propaganda machines and how new media manipulates our voting behavior. And how does AI fit into today's warfare? We will shed light on the intriguing craft of trolls, the digital mercenaries, and see how we still have a chance for facts and peace amidst Putin's hate factory, the opinion manipulation of Truth Social, and the algorithms of X. Political scientist and media editor Manfred Theisen spent three years researching for his thriller "Uncover - The Troll Factory," including in Russia and the Baltics, focusing on hybrid warfare. He spent months in Narva on the Estonian-Russian border, where many experts today fear a possible infiltration of Russian undercover forces into NATO territory.