Standing firm

The Discovery Pod: Season 2, Episode 9

Welcome to The Discovery Pod, where we talk to leading experts from the University of Adelaide about solutions to society’s most pressing challenges. 

Malevolent influence and interference between nation states has always been a ‘thing’. But in the digital age, it’s gone to a whole new level. Our societies are more connected than ever, with countless governmental processes now taking place online, making it worryingly easy for foreign actors to sow the seeds of domestic division and unrest.

So how big a threat does this information warfare pose to our democracy? And what can we do about it? Our host, Isobel Marshall, dissects the latest intel with Associate Professor Tim Legrand, an expert in cyber security, terrorism, and political violence and exclusion.