This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality - Paperback

by Peter Pomerantsev (Author)When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war "[Pomerantsev] describes in detail how social media have been weaponized by the bad guys...The contrast between the tight regulation of information by repressive regimes in the 20th century, and the free-for-all of today's media environment, gives the book its disconcerting force." - Economist "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." - Garry Kasparov, chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative and author of Winter Is Coming "In this moving, unusual, and carefully reported book