This is not propaganda : adventures in the war against reality

Author

Peter Pomerantsev

Call Number

• 303.4833 P785 TEEN (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : PublicAffairs, [2019]

Physical Description

xv, 236 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy--but our very notion of what those words even mean. The author takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia--but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.

Contents

• Preface: Telegram!
• Cities of trolls
• The greatest information blitzkrieg in history
• Soft facts
• Pop-up people
• The future starts here.