[Commlist] new book: Tyrants on Twitter

We would like to announce a new publication from Stanford University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Tyrants on Twitter***

Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare

*David L. Sloss***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503628441/tyrants-on-twitter/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503628441/tyrants-on-twitter/> _*

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"Tyrants may have Twitter, but democracies have David Sloss. He has 
written a pathbreaking book that does more than just identify a 
troubling trend of modern elections. It also boldly proposes a 
transnational solution, including his innovative Alliance for Democracy. 
His contribution will endure long after the Age of Tyrants fades away." 
*- Jens David Ohlin, Cornell Law School*

"This is a detailed and extremely informative analysis of the threat of 
Chinese and Russian information warfare, and the related export of 
digital authoritarianism. Sloss's technical approach to addressing 
external threats while balancing the protection of free speech, personal 
privacy, and data security will be an important reference and source of 
ideas for policymakers and analysts grappling with these critical 
issues." *- Fiona Hill, Brookings Institution *

"It is no hyperbole to say that the future of democracy depends on 
dealing with the issues raised in this book. Sloss masterfully lays out 
the problem and goes on to propose a novel, workable solution. This book 
is sure to stimulate debate, and hopefully action as well." *- Tom 
Ginsburg, The University of Chicago Law School *

When Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram were first introduced to 
the public, their mission was simple: they were designed to help people 
become more connected to each other. Social media became a thriving 
digital space by giving its users the freedom to share whatever they 
wanted with their friends and followers. Unfortunately, these same 
digital tools are also easy to manipulate. As exemplified by Russia's 
interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, authoritarian 
states can exploit social media to interfere with democratic governance 
in open societies.

/Tyrants on Twitter/ is the first detailed analysis of how Chinese and 
Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to 
subvert the liberal international order. In addition to examining the 
2016 U.S. election, David L. Sloss explores Russia's use of foreign 
influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe, as well as 
China's use of social media and other digital tools to meddle in Western 
democracies and buttress autocratic rulers around the world.

Sloss calls for cooperation among democratic governments to create a new 
transnational system for regulating social media to protect Western 
democracies from information warfare. Drawing on his professional 
experience as an arms control negotiator, he outlines a novel system of 
transnational governance that Western democracies can enforce by 
harmonizing their domestic regulations. And drawing on his academic 
expertise in constitutional law, he explains why that system—if 
implemented by legislation in the United States—would be 
constitutionally defensible, despite likely First Amendment objections. 
With its critical examination of information warfare and its proposal 
for practical legislative solutions to fight back, this book is 
essential reading in a time when disinformation campaigns threaten to 
undermine democracy

*David L. Sloss*is the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Professor of Law 
at Santa Clara University. He is the author of /The Death of Treaty 
Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change/(Oxford, 2016). Before 
entering academia, he worked for the U.S. government on drafting and 
negotiating arms control treaties.


*Stanford University Press**| Stanford Studies in Law and Politics | 
April 2022 | 352pp | 9781503628441 | HB | £20.99**

*Price subject to change.

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