Intelligence Character of Information War in the Digital Age
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51699/cejsr.v44i4.90Keywords:
cyber security, intelligence, media, security, counter-intelligenceAbstract
Social media and information warfare are explicitly relevant in ensuring the operativeness and scope of intelligence processes, which makes social media an object of intelligence and counter-intelligence activities because its use for hostile intelligence purposes is
a significant threat to the political stability of the state. As for the information war, it's used under the cover of intelligence services and serves the interests of the country which carries out the intelligence process to form the desired public opinion in the target country and the international arena.
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