_TYRANTS ON TWITTER_, a new book by national security expert David Sloss, details how by investing heavily in global media and information technology systems, Russia and China are undermining democracy. Sloss provides a careful analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms for the sole purpose of subverting the liberal international order, both in America and Europe. In this forum, we’ll examine questions about the 2016 US election and also explore Russia’s use of foreign infiltration to meddle with Western democratic elections. What can be done to mitigate the damage? David L. Sloss is an educator, author, and national security expert. His latest book, Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare focuses on Russian and Chinese information warfare. Sloss is currently Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. Before entering academia, in 2008, he spent nine years in the federal government, working on U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations and nuclear proliferation issues. Sloss will be joined in the discussion by John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. ### Resources [Article : As autocrats ascend, gloomy data on democracies' decline](https://www.dw.com/en/as-autocrats-ascend-gloomy-data-on-democracies-decline/a-62674756) [Tyrants on Twitter ](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33642) [A short op-ed piece related to the book](https://thediplomat.com/2022/05/the-us-should-ban-chinas-state-media-from-social-platforms/) [John Feffer on Russia's invasion of Ukraine](https://fpif.org/putins-cold-cold-strategy/) [John Feffer on Ukraine, Russia and Food Politics](https://fpif.org/the-weaponization-of-food/)
