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Author Pomerantsev, Peter, author.

Title This is not propaganda : adventures in the war against reality / Peter Pomerantsev.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2019]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  320.01 POMERANTSEV    DUE 05-14-24
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 236 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: Telegram! -- Cities of trolls -- Democracy at sea -- The greatest information blitzkrieg in history -- Soft facts -- Pop-up people -- The future starts here.
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.
Subject Pomerantsev, Peter.
Information society -- Political aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects.
Propaganda.
Propaganda (DNLM)D011406
Information society -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00972775
Propaganda. (OCoLC)fst01078957
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01158258
ISBN 9781541762114 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1541762118 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781541762121 (paperback)
1541762126 (paperback)
Standard No. 40029339062
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