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Information Wars : How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It by Richard Stengel is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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
Who reads Information Wars : How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Stengel
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611856385
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Memoir, Science
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (205 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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