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This Is Not Propaganda Adventures in the War Against Reality

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ISBN-10: 1541762126

ISBN-13: 9781541762121

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Pomerantsev

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When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. 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. Peter Pomerantsev 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…    
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Book details

List price: $22.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 5/26/2020
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.35" wide x 5.60" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning contributor to the London Review of Books. His writing has been published in the FT, New Yorker, WSJ, Foreign Policy, Daily Beast, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, among others, and has led to regular media and public appearances. He has also worked as a consultant for the EU and World Bank. He lives in London.