Steve Feldstein

@stevefeldstein.bsky.social

Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment

Tech, geopolitics, democracy

Out Sept 8! Bytes & Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech & New Shape of Modern War
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Author of Rise of Digital Repression
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"The internet remembers everything." Nowadays, info online can be removed, distorted, falsified or censored completely.

Next week, AI Now's @smw.bsky.social, @stevefeldstein.bsky.social & @mashagessen.bsky.social discuss how rewriting digital history is the latest tool of authoritarian regimes.

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Awesome event last night at Politics and Prose on the Wharf in DC last night to launch the book. But it, folks. It's the story of today.

Steve Feldstein@stevefeldstein.bsky.social

Bytes & Bullets is available September 8 wherever books are sold. Pre-order yours now! 👇👇 www.amazon.com/Bytes-Bullet...

amazon.comBytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern WarfareAmazon.com: Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare: 9781250394088: Feldstein, Steve: Books
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In BYTES AND BULLETS, author @stevefeldstein.bsky.social writes about how global tech is changing the shape of modern warfare. In this excerpt, he discusses how drones have changed the battlefield. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

thebulletin.orgHow drones reinvented the proxy warDrone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state actors.
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New excerpt from my forthcoming book Bytes and Bullets in @thebulletin.org. Take a look!

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"Any major armed conflict fought today will almost certainly involve drone technology. Consequently, UAVs are changing the character of war and challenging assumptions about how military victory is achieved," excerpt from @stevefeldstein.bsky.social's “Bytes and Bullets” in @thebulletin.org

thebulletin.orgHow drones reinvented the proxy warDrone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state actors.
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"In the early 2000s, it would have been unthinkable for small insurgent groups to develop sophisticated drone-building programs and deploy unmanned aircraft against their opponents," writes @stevefeldstein.bsky.social. "A generation later, this technology has become cheaper and far more accessible."

thebulletin.orgHow drones reinvented the proxy warDrone technology, once confined to great powers like the United States and China, has spread to smaller states and non-state actors.
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🇺🇳 NEWS --> the UN Human Rights Council today approved new special rapporteurs, including Leopoldo Maldonado, an inspired choice for freedom of expression. Polo, director of @article19mxca.bsky.social for many years, has helped lead the fight for media freedom and journalist protection in Mexico. 🙌

letter from president of human rights council proposing new special rapporteurs, which the council approved today
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Flagging two great pieces just out from
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🧨 @janjiras.bsky.social's piece looks at transnational repression in Thailand
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

carnegieendowment.orgInside the Swap Mart: How Thailand’s Domestic Digital Repression Enables Transnational RepressionThailand is no longer safe for regional activists; neither are Cambodia, Laos, or Vietnam for Thai dissidents who had typically sought refuge in those countries.
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