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This Is Not Propaganda
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality | 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 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.
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So I really learned a lot. It is full of world politics past and present woven togeather with his own personal family narrative of living in Russia from the 60s on. Well written and worth your time.

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Gina
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What you don't know CAN hurt you.

Always look for information everywhere, mix in a little common sense and skepticism and you will be far closer to what you seek.

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Gina
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Oh WoW. I want to learn French (pick a country) history from the French perspective... now that is what should be in our schools, asap!

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Gina
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Ummmmm... WoW... I have no words...

ShyBookOwl Whoa... 4y
Gina @ShyBookOwl Yeah, my thoughts exactly 4y
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Gina
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Geesh... according to Russia we are one busy country! Good Greif!

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Ummmm... this is right out of the pages of 1984. Yikes!

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So I just learned about Infokrieg. They are the radical right wing in Germany. This is not good. I am definitely reading fiction after this heavy meal.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Interesting...scary, but informative...stacking!! 4y
Gina @Riveted_Reader_Melissa It is really keeping my attention. 4y
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That just makes my stomach hurt.

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An excellent look at disinformation campaigns—how they are designed and implemented, why they are used, how some try to combat them, and how insidious they can be. While Trump is discussed, this is not a book about him. It is more global, focusing a great deal on Russia as well as the Philippines. The author was exiled from the USSR as a toddler along with his parents because his father read books. Highly recommend.