Bibliograph

This is not propaganda, adventures in the war against reality, Peter Pomerantsev

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Label

This is not propaganda, adventures in the war against reality, Peter Pomerantsev

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This is not propaganda

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Peter Pomerantsev

Sub title

adventures in the war against reality

Summary

When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psychological operations, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter evolutionaries and pop-up populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part reportage, part intellectual adventure, This is Not Propaganda is a Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy

Target audience

adult

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