I really enjoyed Peter Pomerantsev’s 2019\u00a0book “This Is Not Propaganda”. It mixes a biographical thread of his very interesting family history with the very recent developments of miss information campaigns. How information topology\u00a0has changed during the last\u00a0 quarter\u00a0century\u00a0has been of some interest to me. While I am not an expert by any stretch of the\u00a0imagination I am not totally naive on the subject either. Pomerantsev does in my opinion a wonderful job in explaining the pedigree of the mayhem that messes with our societies right\u00a0now. He focuses on a couple of key points along the way that brings them exemplary to life. I think even if one would have not never considered why it can be, that a rather reality TV persona can be what used to be the ‘leader of the free world’, one would understand the causes much better after reading this very insightful book. There were a couple of passages where the author managed to explain topics to me in a wonderful concise way. While the existence of ISIS had not escaped me either, I had never really understood what drove the sudden surge of this phenomenon. After a few pages I realized much clearer why this ‘movement’ became attractive enough for people to actually go there.\u00a0It is high time that more people understand how manipulation of political movements functions on the Internet. The companies running the infrastructure\u00a0have provided the backbone for allot of things that are really bad for mankind. They did not intend to. They simply did not notice. Maybe they still are ignorant. They certainly do not much to reign it in.\u00a0There has never been more junk information on the pages of Google, Facebook and Twitter.
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Good information quality is the fresh water\u00a0in the developed\u00a0world in the 21st century.\u00a0Lots of entities have plenty of motivation to dump dead donkeys in the wells that are owned by these companies. People will not stop drinking from them. They actually like the taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I really enjoyed Peter Pomerantsev’s 2019\u00a0book “This Is Not Propaganda”. It mixes a biographical thread of his very interesting family history with the very recent developments of miss information campaigns. How information topology\u00a0has changed during the last\u00a0 quarter\u00a0century\u00a0has been of some interest to me. While I am not an expert by any stretch of the\u00a0imagination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n