Information Wars

A “well-told” insider account of the State Department’s twenty-first-century struggle to defend America against malicious propaganda and disinformation ( The Washington Post ). Disinformation is nothing new. When Satan told Eve nothing would happen if she bit the apple, that was disinformation. But today, social media has made disinformation even more pervasive and pernicious. In a disturbing turn of events, authoritarian governments are increasingly using it to create their own false narratives