Information Wars Stengel Richard
Information Wars Stengel Richard Disinformation is as old as humanity. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious in our current era. When Satan told Eve…
Specifikacia Information Wars Stengel Richard
Information Wars Stengel Richard
Disinformation is as old as humanity. But the rise of social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious in our current era. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation.
At the time, he was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation. In a disturbing turn of events, governments are increasingly using disinformation to create their own false narratives, and democracies are proving not to be very good at fighting it.During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time and an Under Secretary of State, was on the front lines of this new global information war. Then, in 2016, as the presidential election unfolded, Stengel watched as Donald Trump used disinformation himself,