adventures in the war against reality Pomerantsev, Peter 1977- creator text nyu New York Public Affairs, Hachetter Book Group 2020 First trade paperback edition monographic eng

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xv, 236 pages ; 21 cm. 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 Preface: Telegram! Cities of trolls Democracy at sea The greatest information blitzkrieg in history Soft facts Pop-up people The future starts here. Peter Pomerantsev. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207- 221) and index. Pomerantsev, Peter 1977- Sociedad de la información Aspectos políticos Propaganda Verdad y mentira Aspectos políticos HM 851 P785t 2020 9781541762121 1541762126 250707 20250829163400.0 eng