Peter Pomerantsev is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, an author and TV producer. He studies propaganda and media development, and has testified on the challenges of information war to the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the UK Parliament Defense Select Committee. He writes for publications including Granta, The Atlantic, Financial Times, London Review of Books, Politico and many others. His first book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burns Prizes. It is translated into over a dozen languages.
"[Pomerantsev] describes in detail how social media have been
weaponized by the bad guys...The contrast between the tight
regulation of information by repressive regimes in the 20th
century, and the free-for-all of today's media environment, gives
the book its disconcerting force."--Economist
"A patchwork tapestry that leaves you shaking your head in
disbelief."--The Guardian on Nothing is True and Everything is
Possible
"Captivating...keen observations."--New York Times Book Review on
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
"Groundbreaking.... Every Democratic candidate should have a plan
for how to counter disinformation and misinformation in American
politics. Pomerantsev's book should be required reading for each of
them."--CNN.com
"In this moving, unusual, and carefully reported book, Peter
Pomerantsev reminds us that propaganda is not just a political
tool: it can also shape individuals, their relationships with their
children, their friendships, their marriages. Far more than just
another take on today's chaotic information wars, this book argues
that we will have to understand how propaganda seeks to shape our
deepest thoughts and feelings before we can confront it."--Anne
Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red
Famine
"Insightful. . . . Diagnoses our fact-distorting age with
understanding and acuity."--New York Times
"It is hard to think of another work that better describes today's
Russia; Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible may very well be
the defining book about the Putin era."--Commentary Magazine on
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
"The truth was supposed to set us free. But Peter Pomerantsev's
brilliant This Is Not Propaganda shows how the very idea of truth
has been weaponized by dictators and other enemies of liberty.
These techniques, first used against us in Russia, have spread
around the globe like a toxic cloud. Taking us from the Philippines
to Ukraine to MAGA-land, Pomerantsev is an unparalleled tour guide
of our post-truth world-and what we all must learn to survive in
it."--Garry Kasparov, chairman of the Renew DemocracyInitiative and
author of Winter Is Coming
"This is a gripping and unsettling account of life in grim
post-Soviet Russia."--Washington Post on Nothing is True and
Everything is Possible
"Vivid and chilling reports from the frontlines of the
disinformation wars."--Foreign Affairs
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