TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pomerantsev,Peter
TI  - This is not propaganda: adventures in the war against reality 
SN  - 9781541762114
AV  - HM851 .P6556 2019
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - PublicAffairs
KW  - Pomerantsev, Peter.
KW  - Information society
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Truthfulness and falsehood
KW  - Propaganda
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface: Telegram! -- Cities of trolls -- The greatest information blitzkrieg in history -- Soft facts -- Pop-up people -- The future starts here
N2  - 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
ER  -