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Information Wars - How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover, Main)
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Information Wars - How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover, Main)
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During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard
Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary
of State, was on the front lines of the new global information war.
At the time, he was the single person in government tasked with
unpacking, disproving and combating both ISIS's messaging and
Russian disinformation. Then, in 2016, as the presidential election
unfolded, Stengel watched as Donald Trump used disinformation
himself, weaponizing the grievances of Americans who felt
overlooked. In fact, Stengel quickly came to see how all three
players had used the same playbook: ISIS sought to make Islam great
again; Putin tried to make Russia great again; and we all know
about Trump. In a narrative that is by turns dramatic and
eye-opening, Information Wars walks readers through of this often
frustrating battle. Stengel moves through Russia and Ukraine, Saudi
Arabia and Iraq, and introduces characters from Putin to Hillary
Clinton, John Kerry and Mohamed bin Salman to show how
disinformation is impacting our global society. He illustrates how
ISIS terrorized the world using social media, and how the Russians
launched a tsunami of disinformation around the annexation of
Crimea - a scheme that became the model for their interference with
the 2016 presidential election. An urgent book for our times,
Information Wars stresses that we must find a way to combat this
ever growing threat to democracy.
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