Oh, What a Tangled Web: Russian Hacking, Fake News, and the 2016 US Presidential Election

Authors

Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Publication Title

Computer

Volume

50

Issue

9

First page number:

87

Last page number:

91

Abstract

The real story behind alleged foreign interference in our election isn't that it occurred - any impact on the outcome from Russian hacking and trolling was minimal - but that we set the standard for such activity and have no one but ourselves to blame. © 1970-2012 IEEE.

Keywords

Out of Band; History of computing; Election; Cybercrime; Hackers; Trolls; Silk Road; Ross William Ulbricht; Fake news

Language

english

Repository Citation

Berghel, H. (2017). Oh, What a Tangled Web: Russian Hacking, Fake News, and the 2016 US Presidential Election. Computer, 50(9), 87-91.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2017.3571054