Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades.… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Because of cyberattacks and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies will face in future elections: how to… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
As for the European far left, it has very little to do with Marxism-Leninism these days. It has more to do with anti-Semitism, racism,… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Russia has had very aggressive military exercises. They've practiced mock nuclear attacks on Warsaw. Russian bombers practiced attacking strategic military targets in Sweden. The… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image