Russian Infowar Targets Transatlantic Bonds

The West’s coordinated expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is a sign, perhaps, of a reinvigorated transatlantic relationship – a relationship that pro-Kremlin social media accounts have actively sought to undermine.

Until recently, however, most of the attention on Russia’s computational propaganda and online influence operations have focused on attempts to widen divisions within Western democracies rather than between them.

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