ABSTRACT
Social media warfare has an impact on educational institutions at all levels. This chapter examines many of the issues that schools face because of social media warfare. All schools face the need to develop social media use policies for students, staff, and faculty that address a number of issues, including appropriate use, cyberbullying, and students using social media to organize protests against schools. Social media technology has many potential benefits for youths. It allows young people to communicate with family and friends on a regular basis. Adults, like children, become victims of social media warfare from several sources of attack. These can take the form of harassment, revenge actions, identity theft, fraudulent transactions, and hacking of computers or phones. Social media warfare troops will need cyber skills, military intelligence and civilian intelligence skills, language skills, cultural knowledge, and propaganda skills.
