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Another must-read for students of disinformation

A review of Peter Pomerantsev’s “This Is Not Propaganda”

I finished Pomerantsev’s latest book This Is Not Propaganda (2020) about a week ago and here are the parts that stuck with me:

• Pomerantsev makes an interesting connection between interrogation techniques used during torture sessions by Soviet/Russian interrogators, and the patterns of harassment that are used to attack people like journalists and activists online.
• The book provides a wonderful tour of some of the most impactful and complex propaganda campaigns in our lifetimes, with visits to the Philippines, Russia, Serbia, Mexico, Estonia, Ukraine, the United States, Syria, and even at home in Britain
• Pomerantsev interleaves his family’s personal history with the global tour of propaganda, sometimes an interesting diversion and sometimes a distraction.

Overall if you want to understand the modern phenomena of disinformation then you should definitely add this book to your list.