If there is a competition between different versions of reality, in other words, the side which is less constrained by the truth may be more likely to win. But if this is the case, then the entire premise of liberal media is undermined. We have long believed that more information means better decisions, and better democracy. If disinformation becomes a deluge, this may no longer be the case. Alarmingly this is a problem we are seeing throughout the world, not least in the US where different sides of the political spectrum have begun to split into separate realities, and where disinformation about such stories as Democrat health care reform including "death panels" for the elderly, or that President Obama was born outside the US, have become common.
The papers gathered here make a strong case; today's autocrats, "illiberal democrats", and their propagandists have learnt how to use phenomena previously associated with democracy--elections, the Internet, the press, the market--to undermine freedoms. They have learnt how to disrupt the soft power of liberal democracy with a liquid and disruptive treatment of ideology. And they do so by using Western technology and Western money. While the EU and the US government decry the amount of disinformation, aggression, and war-mongering on Kremlin TV channels, it is worth keeping in mind that many of these networks are kept afloat by revenue made from Western advertising.
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How to beat Vladimir Putin in the battle for hearts and eyeballs
By Peter Pomerantsev, August 4, 2015
The west is belatedly waking up to the power of the Kremlin's media machine.
The supreme commander of Nato [General Philip Breedlove] called the annexation of Crimea "the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen".
Zhanna Nemtsova blames the climate of hate created by Kremlin propaganda for the murder of her father, opposition politician Boris Nemtsov.
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