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Defeating Russia’s Information War Machine – with Peter Pomerantsev

Defeating Russia’s Information War Machine – with Peter Pomerantsev

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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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From the crisis in American democracy to the collapse of the Middle East’s petrochemical oligarchies, this is your guide to the dangers that mass media isn’t covering.

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Putin has used digital disinformation against Ukraine and the West
since long before the Russian invasion, undermining US and EU
support for Kyiv by smearing Ukrainians as Nazis and denying
Russia’s many atrocities. Are we already in an information war? And
how do we win it? Gavin Esler talks to longterm Putin-watcher and
post-truth analyst Peter Pomerantsev, author of How To Win An
Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler about
Russia’s post-truth strategy – and what the astonishing WWII
story of British propagandist Sefton Delmer can teach us about
fighting big state lies. • “Russia uses the term ‘information
war’ across its strategy… They see everything from the BBC to
NGOs as part of an information war machine ranged against Russia.”
• “This is a very cynical worldview, where no journalism is
genuine – it must have been ordered by some dark forces.”
• “Putin knows that being able to lie and laugh in people’s
faces is a sign of power.” • “Sefton Delmer gave ordinary Germans a
safe environment where they could start to be disloyal to the
Nazis… He gave people a form of psychological cover.” Buy How
To Win An Information War and Peter Pomerantsev’s This Is Not
Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality through our
affiliate bookshop. You’ll be helping to fund This Is Not A Drill
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sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops
too. Support This Is Not A Drill on Patreon to get early episodes,
merchandise and more. Written and presented by Gavin Esler.
Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll
– https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin
Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a
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