@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social
Author and Johns Hopkins Agora Fellow https://t.co/Gea41bGhz9
Content moderation is not censorship; platforms have a First Amendment right to set civility guidelines on their services.
Fact-checking is not censorship; it is a type of counterspeech that Justice Brandeis would have favored.
Online safety is not censorship; it prevents voices being silenced.
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Rusko uskutečňuje sen o rozdělení Západu. Pravým poraženým není Ukrajina, ale Evropa, míní Pomerantsev
Vyjednavači Spojených států a Ukrajiny v Ženevě zpřesnili dokument, který má ukončit válku s Ruskem. „Pro Ukrajinu to ve srovnání s těmi hroznými návrhy, co byly vydány před měsícem, je...
Glad to commission this from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda.
— @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
„Bohužel vidíme uskutečnění ruského snu, tedy konec euroatlantického vztahu. Ukrajina bojuje o svou suverenitu každý den, má svaly, ale v krizi je Evropa,“ míní novinář.
https://plus.rozhlas.cz/pomerantsev-rusko-uskutecnuje-sen-o-rozdeleni-zapadu-pravym-porazenym-neni-9578356
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
"This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible. This is how you get people apparently faking that DHS's account was created in Israel."
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@michaelneiberg.bsky.social & @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social discuss #propaganda at #CVHF2024! Hear the parallels between #WWII & #Ukraine, focusing on Sefton Delmer's counter-Nazi "fake news" tactics. Essential listening for current events! #WARROOM
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/mod...
If quoting Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat @eliothiggins.bsky.social weren't enough, describing X as "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit" is all you need to know this will be a good read.
Definitely worth 5 minutes of your time, and a gift link too!
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise, Peter Pomerantsev argues.
#authoritarian #journalism #disinformation #media
"Instead of thinking about debunking disinformation, we should be thinking about how to tell better stories…they're stories of action, stories of policy, stories of meaning…And it's up to us to tell these stories."
—Peter Pomerantsev
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the ‘peace plan’ as theatre of absurd and theatre of cruelty all in one
21.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0"We have two ways of having a relationship with the language all around us [...]. We can either be defined by it or rebel and re create it."
Peter Pomerantsev, 'How to Win an Information War'
Authoritarian propaganda ruthlessly exploits peoples need to belong, latent resentments, insecurities and helplessness. To compete you need to dive into the dark operating theatre of human desire….some lessons from research across Europe thats applicable to to US
www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
"Trump treats American potency as a wasting asset, drawing it down over and over to satisfy his personal whims and ideas," says Thomas Wright. But sooner or later, power will drain away
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
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"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse"
From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone
www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev
DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
The collapse of Putin's system will only happen if it can be overloaded with more problems than it can manage.
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social in the bunker with Prez & Liubov
youtu.be/vjQHcJ0EyLA
Very telling that oligarchs want to be called aristocrats. On the donors who think they deserve to rule:
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
While watching this academic lecture by @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, I thought; why, are so few seeking ways to undermine far-right populist #propaganda? It floods info channels globally, sweeps up followers in myths & distortions while the opposition...reacts to it. Instead of disrupting it?
04.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0Thank you
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"It's not about the facts. Disinformation is about identity, emotion and trauma" - Peter Pomerantsev
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-0b...
On the self-destructive psychology of populist’s desire to ‘take back control’ …a form of self harm
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/oc...
“The Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.”
read this horrific report from Kherson:
open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...
Latest from the bunker for Patreons features @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social "What Putin fears most is losing control"
He made his own drinks.
www.patreon.com/posts/142096...
To make Putin worried enough to consider a cease-fire more seriously, the West must act in the informational domain, write Peter Pomerantsev and Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi.
24.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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