| ID | 147505 |
| Title Proper | Information warfare and the US presidential election |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Inkster, Nigel |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | On Friday 22 July 2016, some 20,000 emails stolen from the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were published on the WikiLeaks website. The emails, a selection of which had already been passed to American media organisations, were to varying degrees embarrassing to the DNC, in particular by demonstrating that the party organisation was biased in favour of Hillary Clinton at the expense of Bernie Sanders, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. The immediate consequence of the leaks was the resignation of DNC chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz. But the ripples of this incident, which revealed no evidence of significant wrongdoing within the Democratic Party, spread far and wide, raising serious questions about the extent to which the United States presidential election had become weaponised in the context of a wider geopolitical confrontation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 58, No.5; Oct-Nov 2016: p.23-32 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 58 No 5 |
| Key Words | United States ; Cyber Security ; Russia ; Global Politics ; US Election 2016 |