LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

Emerson T. Brooking, defense analyst and Resident Fellow at the Digital Forensic Research lab at the Atlantic Council, discusses his timely new book “LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media,” with host Carol Castiel and VOA Assistant Producer Mitch Beiter. The book explores the collision of war, politics and social media. It analyzes how social media can be weaponized to sway political opinions, fuel popular uprisings and even affect the course of military and political campaigns.