The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
moonlight_sonata333's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
rozzles95's review against another edition
5.0
An excellent path through information operations globally and over a broad span of time. From the USSR to Brexit this book covers information warfare in detail, while still remaining engaging and enjoyable. An excellent read.
arthuraugustyn's review against another edition
3.0
Difficult to give this a rating. Much of the information about internet-age propaganda is fascinating and invaluable to anyone interested in how our modern world is being dominated by vicious amoral actors. At the same time, a lot of this book has long stretches of totally irrelevant "color." You'll get 10 pages about a Faulkner novel, another 10 pages on some family story from 50 years ago. They're all tangential to the book's topic, but nowhere near as interesting. Given this book is relatively short (barely 200 pages), I imagine this was mandated by the publisher for length, but it's not necessary. I started to skip huge portions whenever it was obvious there was some pointless anecdote.
Additionally, this may be the only book I put down for a year because it was so god damn depressing. That may be an indication it's a worthy read.
Additionally, this may be the only book I put down for a year because it was so god damn depressing. That may be an indication it's a worthy read.
rizzone's review against another edition
The way it was written was just not it for me.
admatthews's review against another edition
4.0
Pomerantsev sets out with chilling clarity how, instead of suppressing free speech, some governments or institutions now weaponise it instead and exploit an 'abundance of information' to drown out reasoned argument -and that even when we know they're doing it, on the whole we don't care as long as we like the message.