Dezinformacja w stosunkach międzynarodowych w warunkach czwartej rewolucji przemysłowej

This paper examines the opportunities for international disinformation resulting from the technological development under the Fourth Industrial Revolution and from its social implications. It assumes these phenomena have brought new instruments and opportunities for states to make use of disinformation on an unprecedented scale which has been enabled by the features of the contemporary information environment based mostly on Internet and social media. As a result disinformation has become arguably easier, more efficient and, therefore, more threatening than ever before. At the beginning the paper explores the aforementioned features and outlines which disinformation strategies can be used on a large scale in such circumstances. It identifies subsequently states making use of the new disinformation toolkit in their foreign policies as well as their main motivations and enablers. The final section presents the countermeasures to disinformation that could be undertaken and assesses the limits of their application.