This Is Not Propaganda
Adventures in the War Against Reality
About the book
Part memoir and part investigation, Peter Pomerantsev's 2019 book examines disinformation campaigns across several countries. He meets Twitter revolutionaries, populists, behavioral change salesmen, jihadi fans, Identitarians and truth cops, and forty years after the KGB pursued his dissident parents he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a major propaganda power. Pomerantsev links Russian methods of manipulating reality to the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit referendum, and discusses Rodrigo Duterte. He argues that such campaigns aim to destroy belief in objective truth and trust in democracy. The book also profiles activists pushing back and suggests journalistic and online practices built around facts.
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov endorsed it, writing that it shows how dictators and other enemies of liberty have turned the idea of truth into a weapon.
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Garry Kasparov (Chess Grandmaster)
The truth was supposed to set us free. But Peter Pomerantsev's brilliant This Is Not Propaganda shows how the very idea of truth has been weaponized by dictators and other enemies of liberty. These techniques, first used against us in Russia, have spread around the globe like a toxic cloud. Taking us from the Philippines to Ukraine to MAGA-land, Pomerantsev is an unparalleled tour guide of our post-truth world-and what we all must learn to survive in it.
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