Misinformation refers to false information spread, but not on purpose. Disinformation refers to the intentional spread of false information. Materials collected here analyze disinformation in the context of recent Russian and Ukrainian society.
How to lose the information war: Russia, fake news, and the future of conflict. by
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight, and from her attempts to get US congress to act, make for essential reading. How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics - all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.
This is not propaganda by
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times). When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.
Nothing is true and everything is possible by
In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell's Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship--far subtler than twentieth-century strains--that is rapidlyrising to challenge the West. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful,Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.
Here are some credible news outlets in English:
@KyivIndependent (https://kyivindependent.com/])
@NewVoiceUkraine (https://english.nv.ua/)
Here are some Ukraine-based journalists:
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk
Nika Melkozerova @NikaMelkozerova
Illia Ponomarenko @IAPonomarenko
Nataliya Gumenyuk @ngumenyuk
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk
Olga Rudenko @olya_rudenko
Anastasiia Lapatina @lapatina_
Jane Lyvynenkp @JaneLytv
Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson
Interactive map of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the Institute for the Study of War: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/36a7f6a6f5a9448496de641cf64bd375
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