The weaponization of social media has been a feature of international politics since the so-called Green Revolution in Iran in 2009. That grassroots movement for reform depended heavily on coordination via Twitter, and foreshadowed the cross-regional reliance on Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp during and after the Arab Spring. But just as social media has become an invaluable tool in organizing resistance, it is now being wielded by tech-savvy states to ...