Estonia

Who’s manipulating what you know before you vote?

NATO celebrates its 70th anniversary this week. Estonian Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov says that the alliance — and its commitment to all member states — is ironclad and stronger than ever.

European countries, especially the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have confronted Russian disinformation campaigns for decades. Their experience may offer useful lessons as the US joins the battle.

Estonia has a population less than half that of Silicon Valley. But the small Baltic nation has managed to put itself on the map as on of the most digitally innovative countries in the world through it’s E-Stonia project, which has digitized almost all aspects of citizen life.

A campaign that Western military are linking to Russian hackers has targeted the contingent of 4,000 NATO troops deployed to Poland and the Baltic states this year, to protect the alliance’s European border with Russia.