369. Peter Pomerantsev - Lessons from WWII in Fighting Propaganda Using Black Disinformation Techniques.

Fighting propagandistic lies with more lies rarely works and runs the
risk of eroding trust in your credibility and undermining your cause.
However, there is a role for so-called Black disinformation in wartime.
This deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information can be
highly effective as part of a military operation. Information campaigns
with the intent to deceive, manipulate, or undermine an adversary during
warfare or conflicts is a tactic used to gain strategic advantages by
sowing confusion and destabilizing the enemy. Classic examples of this
weaponised subterfuge played an important role in Britain’s victory in
WWII and can help to save many lives and shorten conflicts.
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Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author, and TV
producer. He has written two books about Russian disinformation and
propaganda: Nothing Is True, and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This
Is Not Propaganda (2019). Peter was born into a Russian speaking Jewish
family in Kyiv, in 1977. In 1978, he moved with his parents to West
Germany, after his father, broadcaster, and poet Igor Pomerantsev, was
arrested by the KGB for proliferating anti-Soviet literature. They later
moved to Munich and then London where Igor Pomerantsev worked for the
BBC World Service.
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BOOKS:
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia
(2014)
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019)
Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals
(Ukrainian Voices)
by Volodymyr Yermolenko with Foreword by Peter Pomerantsev (2020)
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia (Charlotte Hobson and
Peter Pomerantsev 2017)
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
(2024)
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ARTICLES:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation
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