"The Russian invasion of Ukraine will be the first war to fully play out on social media. There will be no possibility of controlling the information." ...it ha

"The Russian invasion of Ukraine will be the first war to fully play out on social media. There will be no possibility of controlling the information." ...it has long ago become apparent that when you can't shut it off, you can drown it out with a greater quantity of fake. Not saying Russia will bother to do that here, but there certainly is a possibility. "And with social media, artificial intelligence and Internet-enabled crowd-sourcing, the intelligence will belong to the global public. And that changes everything." ...sounds very much like things I recall from the late 90's about how the internet would make dictatorships impossible because they relied on censorship. Dictatorships, uh, managed to survive. It would be awesome if ubiquitous smartphones "changed everything" about war. But it seems unlikely.