**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020*** A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR *Quietly frightening. GuardianEssential reading. Irish TimesConsistently chilling. HeraldShocking and entertaining. Daily TelegraphWhen information is a weapon, everyone is at war.We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. Weve lost not only our sense of peace and democracy - but our sense of what those words even mean.As Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, behavioural change salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, Identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are surprising.The worlds most powerful people are lying like never before, and no one understands the art of their lies like Peter Pomerantsev. Oliver BulloughThrough our current smog of smouldering bullshit, This is Not Propaganda shines a necessary, humane and dissident light. Nick RankinFar more than just another take on todays chaotic information wars, this book argues that we will have to understand how propaganda seeks to shape our deepest thoughts before we can confront it. Anne Applebaum