Hybrid Warfare, Trolls, Agents of Influence, and Useful Idiots
Journal: ACROSS Journal of Interdisciplinary Cross-border Studies
Year: 2025

If, for the collocation “fake news”, the “birth date” can be approximated (the 2016 United States of America presidential election), about the concepts we will analyse in this material, it is very difficult to establish an initial date, and even harder to find the “godfather”. These concepts have somewhat remained in the shadows, being used only by specialists in the field. However, what happened in Europe and around the world, immediately after the beginning of the XXI century, made them come i