21 Dec 2019

Peter Pomerantsev: 'when information is a weapon, everyone is at war'

From Saturday Morning, 9:20 am on 21 December 2019

How can we build up a more truthful picture of the world in the era of fake news, trolls, Trump and Putin? This is the question at the heart of Peter Pomerantsev's new book This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality.

Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born journalist, author and TV producer who's spent much of his life in Britain after his dissident parents were forced out of the USSR by the KGB.

He's also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics.

Peter Pomerantsev and the cover of his book "This is Not Propaganda"

Peter Pomerantsev and the cover of his book "This is Not Propaganda" Photo: supplied / Eleanor Crow