Peter Pomerantsev, a contributor at The Atlantic and author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, is an expert on the ways information can be manipulated. For this special ...

This article explores the propaganda techniques developed since the birth of the field in WWI. It advises how businesses can make the best use of these techniques—ethically and honestly—to grow and ...

'The Propaganda Monitor' aims to expose the many faces and tactics behind propaganda worldwide, bolstering the public's understanding of the information space and helping them navigate it more safely.

New research by the Oxford Internet Institute has found that social media manipulation is getting worse, with rising numbers of governments and political parties making cynical use of social media ...

President Trump and his allies have ramped up their already heated rhetoric in the run-up to the November 6, 2018, midterm elections. It’s standard practice to “rally the base” during election season.

The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," professor Nick ...

Propaganda. Brainwashing. What if we have been subjected to these practices all our lives? Propaganda is the distribution of biased or misleading information used to promote a specific political point ...

Narcissists can be opportunistic and manipulative in ways that can be hard to spot. That’s why it helps to have tools to decode unsettling or mystifying interactions with individuals who meet the ...

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