#123 - Bret Schafer on Information Warfare and How Social Media Disrupts Democracy

[**Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!!**](https://www.xvbelink.com/?a_fid=chatter) Bret Schafer from the Alliance for Securing Democracy was my guest on today’s show. I first spoke to Bret 3 years ago on the show to discuss the weaponisation of information and the threat to democracy. Now, three years later, things have unfortunately got worse and not better. A lot of the issues that we faced then have been super-charged and the worst avenues for a abuse of the system have not yet been closed up. We spoke all about censorship, election hacking, Russia, China, Facebook, Twitter and regulating Silicon Valley and the tech world. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now available for pre-order. You’ll find the links in the description below. [**ORDER BREXIT:THE ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR HERE**]( https://amzn.to/39XXVjq) [***Get 25% off podcast hosting with Podiant***](https://pcast.link/chatter/) [***Order GameStop T-shirts Here!***](https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/to-the-moon-59) ***RESOURCES*** https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/author/bret-schafer/ https://www.gmfus.org/profiles/bret-schafer https://twitter.com/gmfus https://thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/russian-bots-us-election-trevors-axiom/ Follow us on [Facebook]( https://www.facebook.com/justgivemethejist/) or [Twitter]( https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist) or [sign up for our mailing list here]( http://eepurl.com/cSmT7v) to get information on my upcoming book, [Brexit: The Establishment Civil War](http://www.establishmentcivilwar.co.uk/). Music from Just Jim - [https://soundcloud.com/justjim](https://soundcloud.com/justjim)