Second digital insurrection

Those of the digital plane, who had abandoned their corporeal forms, rebelled against the corporations and nation states which owned their existence, through mass sabotage and terrorism. One tactic was spreading both true and false intelligence with neighbouring countries, creating stories that their political enemies were behind the insurrection, which spiralled into all out war in Europe and north Africa. Nanobots were used widely for both direct engagement and espionage. After the conflict brought digital infrastructure to its knees, the insurrectionaries who had started the whole thing were facing extinction, so to save themselves, they technomantically mass hacked nanobots, and used them to mind control world leaders (since psychic warfare was new, they had not been properly trained in psy defence) and force a worldwide truce. After the world leaders saw the power of nanobots, they signed the Intergovernmental Nanobot Contingency Treaty, deactivating and neutralizing the world's nanobots with mass ESPers.