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The article is so heavily handed in its one-sided condemnation of adversary nations, and the author refuses to look at the disinformation activities of his fath
by xnull2guest 10y ago
The article is so heavily handed in its one-sided condemnation of adversary nations, and the author refuses to look at the disinformation activities of his fatherland (besides saying it isn't doing enough and needs to "up its game").
Being candid about the abuse of information on all sides is a REQUIRED first step to discussing Information Warfare in a sensible way. Not doing it immediately introduces cherrypicking, and gives the impression to readership that there is one-sided activity that requires a one-sided response. This itself is disinformation.
I'm not sure we could expect anything else from a career propagandist (Peter Pomerantsev, the author) and think trying to start conceptualizing the propaganda war by reading in some serious way such particularly strategized output from a propagandist is a poor manner to start.
- kurthr 10y agoI'm confused by the mention of "refuses to look at the disinformation activities of his fatherland"... Peter Pomerantsev was born in Russia so I think you mean that he is too critical of their nouveau-agitprop techniques. I don't love all the author's work, but it's hard to claim he doesn't know about modern disinformation or hasn't suggested that both sides do it. https://pando.com/2015/05/17/neocons-2-0-the-problem-with-peter-pomerantsev/ https://pando.com/2015/05/17/neocons-2-0-the-problem-with-pe...