How to Lose the Information War

Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

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How to Lose the Information War

Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

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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, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it?

Central and Eastern European states, including Ukraine and Poland, 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.

Table of Contents

Prologue - Fake News and the Russian Offensive
1. United States, 2016-Present, Playing Whack-a-Troll
2. Estonia: "Beta" Trolls
3. Georgia: Tanks and Television
4. Poland: When Vaccines Don't Work
5. Czech Republic: Fighting Lies Means Fighting Opinion
6. Ukraine and the Netherlands: A Disaster
7. Beyond Whack-a-Troll

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Published Jul 09 2020
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9781838607685
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Dimensions 216 x 138 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Nina Jankowicz

Nina Jankowicz is a Washington DC-based writer and…

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