This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

About this book

When information is a weapon everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok a world of dark ads psy-ops hacks bots soft facts ISIS Putin trolls Trump. Weve lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean. As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists behavioural change salesmen Jihadi fan-boys Identitarians truth cops and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising. Part reportage part intellectual adventure This is Not Propaganda is a Pynchon-like exploration of how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves in a time where truth has been turned topsy-turvy.