THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA

HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE ORDER NOW WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020 A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Quietly frightening Guardian Essential reading Irish Times Consistently chilling Herald Shocking and entertaining Daily Telegraph 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 We ve 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 The world s most powerful people are lying like never before and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev Oliver Bullough Through our current smog of smouldering bullshit This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary human