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The War On Truth

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The Cold Warriors of the postwar world never dreamed that Western democracies would become to rely on a global information network – and that our very openness could be turned against us. As the stories of Brexit, COVID and Trump coalesce into one nightma

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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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The Cold Warriors of the postwar world never dreamed that Western
democracies would come to rely on a global information network –
and that our very openness could be turned against us. As the
stories of Brexit, COVID and Trump coalesce into one nightmare tale
of disinformation and weaponised lying, Arthur Snell asks whether
democracy can survive in a post-truth world. If you control the
information space, do you control the future? And after the
pandemic, can we withstand the infodemic? Want to support us, get
episodes early and extra content? Support us on Patreon and back us
from just £3 per month now. • “If you’ve got enough money, you can
ensure that people hear your talking points day in day out, hour
after hour.” – Amil Khan • “COVID was a means to test these
weapons. Climate denial is the next battleground, and it will make
the anti-lockdown and COVID stuff look like child’s play.” – Darren
Loucaides • “If tech companies can’t moderate memes and text, how
on Earth are they going to moderate the Metaverse?” — Nina
Jankowicz • “Soviet Union was Terminator 1: bulky and ungainly. Now
Putin’s Russia is Terminator 2, very fluid and adaptable.” – Peter
Pomerantsev • “Our systems are threatened not by people who are
suffering but by comfortable middle class people who are bored and
looking to go on a crusade.” — Tom Nichols • “What is shocking is
how fast people will jump from a failure of policy itself to the
idea that the whole edifice of liberal democracy needs to be junked
in favour of a celebrity strongman.” — Tom Nichols • “Our openness
is a weakness. We can’t go into Russia and broadcast like the BBC
can – but RT can come here and say anything it likes.” – Nina
Jankowicz DOOMSDAY WATCH was written and presented by Arthur Snell,
and produced by Robin Leeburn – with assistant production from
Jacob Archbold. Theme tune and original music by Paul Hartnoll. The
group editor is Andrew Harrison. DOOMSDAY WATCH is a Podmasters
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