Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

Thomas Rid

528 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative tense slow-paced

Description

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms We live in the age of disinformation--of organized deception. Spy agencie...

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