Peter Pomerantsev – Lessons from the Second World War for countering propaganda using black disinformation techniques.

Countering propaganda lies with more lies rarely works and risks eroding trust in your credibility and undermining your cause. However, so-called dark disinformation has a role to play in war. This deliberate dissemination of false or misleading information can be very effective in a military operation. Information campaigns aimed at deceiving, manipulating, or undermining an adversary during war or conflict are a tactic used to gain strategic advantages by sowing confusion and destabilizing the enemy. Classic examples of this military subterfuge played an important role in British victory in World War II and can help save many lives and shorten conflicts.
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Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and television producer. He has written two books on 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 proliferation of anti-Soviet literature. They then 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)
It's Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019)
Ukraine in stories and narratives: essays by Ukrainian intellectuals (Ukrainian Voices)
by Volodymyr Yermolenko with a foreword by Peter Pomerantsev (2020)
City of the Black Earth: 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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