Miscellaneous
In Episode 19, Melissa and Matt speak via Skype with Russian journalist and author Andrei Soldatov. Soldatov is the co-author of "The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries." The book details how how the Kremlin uses the Internet to its advantage around the world, and with the aim of destabilizing democracies. There's now a new version of the book with an additional chapter on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Soldatov has fascinating insights, straight from Moscow, on Putin's Russia and his real motivation for meddling in our election (hint: remember the Panama Papers?) There's much more here after the jump!