Cyber warfare next? Russian invasion of Ukraine raises threat level

Wait for it, warns the US president. Joe Biden tells business leaders that they had better shore up their defenses. Most vulnerable are corporations and in particular the international banking system. Could cyberspace be where World War III starts? Or did it start virtually long ago?

George Orwell would have plenty to say on all the disinformation campaigns that have swept the globe in the past two decades. Even today, Vladimir Putin's invasion of a sovereign state is craftily sold at home and he's already honing his message abroad, working inward from the fringes of social media. How battle ready is the West on this one?

Produced by Charles Wente, Juliette Laurain and Léopoldine Iribarren.

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