Peter Pomerantsev This Is Not Propaganda

Peter Pomerantsev, a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, 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.
This event was co-sponsored by the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the University Libraries.

[@sherrillwhately7586]

Love that idea that empathy makes Democracy possible. I find trolls usually try to deny your empathy be trying to engage you in endless arguments.

[@potter275]

Wow- he's terrific! I recommend listening along with CC(closed caption) to get words that he swallows, that get lower, or are too accented.

[@ah5555]

Really admirable! He has many interesting points, but taking censorship as proof of a Soviet belief in truth is faulty. It just speaks to a belief in the operative power of information.

[@easterntechartists]

the story about the family and KGB..i fail to see any difference with usa and Canadian tactics as of 2022

[@barrybarnes96]

You're the propaganda/disinfo victim he is referring to. The end result sought by the Kremlin. "there is no difference" 'Nothing is true and everything is possible."

[@0013dancer]

so bidens "build BACK better" is not nostalgic? ;-)

[@CheetoPuffin]

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