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Information Wars - How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
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Information Wars - How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)
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Disinformation is as old as humanity. When Satan told Eve nothing
would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But the
rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive
and pernicious in our current era. In a disturbing turn of events,
governments are increasingly using disinformation to create their
own false narratives, and democracies are proving not to be very
good at fighting it. During the final three years of the Obama
administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time and an
Under Secretary of State, was on the front lines of this 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 left out by modernism. 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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