Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky listens to speakers at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019.

The Russia-Ukraine Information War

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 2, 2022

Sinan Aral, MIT professor of management, marketing, IT and data science, director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the author of The Hype Machine (Currency, 2020), offers his perspective on why it appears that Ukraine is winning the information war through traditional and social media, despite Russia's historical success in controlling the narrative.

→"Ukraine is winning the information war" (Washington Post, 3/1/22, paywall)

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