Peter Pomerantsev

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How the Threat of Trump’s Highest Tariff Derailed an African Nation

Trump randomly announced huge tariffs on Lesotho in April, for no rational reason. Enormous economic consequences have already followed

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

Searching for the Children of the Disappeared A new book examines the extraordinary decades-long campaign by Argentinean women to find their grandchildren.

For decades, a group of Argentinian women led an extraordinary campaign to find their stolen grandchildren.

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Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

"the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence"
from the former American ambassador to Budapest www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

What If the Real Battle Is About the Kind of Community We Build?

Peter Pomerantsev, a renowned scholar of propaganda and information warfare, answers the question in our podcast episode:
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Someone made a film on this topic that premieres tomorrow, and I think it would be useful if it were available on streaming platforms.
Czech director @robinkvapil.bsky.social took three pro-Kremlin conspiracy theorists to Ukraine for a documentary, where they witnessed the war’s realities firsthand.

Autocratic populism produces poverty and decline

What Are the Anti-Estonian Narratives in 2025? – Propastop

Propastop provides an overview of new and recycled Russian propaganda narratives that were hostile to Estonia in 2025. The narratives are likened to fashion trends that fade and reoccur, reshaping the streetscape.
www.propastop.org/en/2025/07/1...

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Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models

Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots - on.ft.com/46hV6qW via @FT

⚡ Think You're Immune to Propaganda? That’s When It Hits

Peter Pomerantsev, a renowned scholar of propaganda and information warfare, discusses how propaganda influences people in our podcast episode:
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Disruptors: Inside Russia’s Balkan Training Camps for Moldovan ‘Destabilisation’ A joint investigation by BIRN and Moldovan CU SENS sheds new light on the training camps run by Russian operatives in Bosnia and Serbia that Chisinau says were used to train Moldovans in destabilisati...

Russians linked to Wagner trained people in paramilitary camps in Bosnia and Serbia to disrupt the Moldovan elections, learning "how to organise mass riots and how to provoke the police into a violent reaction”

balkaninsight.com/2025/07/15/d...

Republicans in Congress Shift to Backing Ukraine, Matching Trump’s Reversal

This story in fact reveals an important truth: the anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Congress was mostly coming from Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

“For years, we indulged the Moscow-centered narrative that defined a vast region and Russia’s place within it… Today, that fiction is unraveling, shocking many in the West. But for those who have had the misfortune of living next to Russia, it is a “we told you so” moment. Full of anger and regret.”

The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation The story of the British man who took on Hitler’s information machine offers valuable insights into the fight against the rise of authoritarianism

Sefton Delmer lead Britain's counter-propaganda against the Nazis. He didn't believe in lecturing fascists about democracy. He was a trickster who wanted to undermine the hold Hitler had on his followers. We can learn a few tricks, and mistakes, from him today. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/m...

YouTube video by De Balie Anne Applebaum x Volodymyr Yermolenko

At @debalie.bsky.social in Amsterdam, talking to the brilliant Volodymyr Yermonlenko. About Ukraine, but not only
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Trump’s feel-bad foreign policy is guided by emotion, not... Some of the US president’s decisions may seem contradictory but they reflect his understanding of the emotional needs of his Maga supporters

Trumps pursues a foreign policy of feelings. Only 46% of Maga voters want US leadership in the world, compared to 74% of Dems. Yet 98% want the US to be the most powerful nation. They desire both global primacy and casting aside intl responsibility observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Autocracy in America There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.

I’ve read through the transcripts of the podcast «Autocracy in America» by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on The Atlantic @theatlantic.com published before the US elections 2024 and it is scary how exact their predictions were, you could think it was published today…

Despite Close Ties With Iran, Russia Stands Aside as Israel Attacks

Another way to put this: Russia, bogged down in Ukraine, is unable to help its partners
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/w...

Live shot of the special relationship

YouTube video by Český rozhlas Plus Peter Pomerantsev: It's not about the facts. Disinformation is about identity, emotion and trauma

A very nice keynote address by Peter Pomerantsev a saving our democracies from manipulation.
youtube.com/watch?v=b-0b...

Happy #FlagDay. The flag belongs to all of us. Don’t let anyone appropriate patriotism. 🇺🇸

The merits of a wartime mentality The continuing Russo-Ukrainian war and the readiness of Moscow to think and act as if it is already in a wider conflict with the West mean a war-time mentality is needed right now.

“We should be interrogating the most important recs in the review…The first is that the UK has a peacetime mentality, as if it allows itself to take any amount of time to decide awkward issues,and that, second, this problem is most evident when it comes to procurement” - @ldfreedman.bsky.social

Perspective: Moldova Faces Unprecedented Hybrid Aggression Guest Article by Valeriu Pașa

Second, it explains what’s at stake, not just in Moldova. Finally, it offers sound advice for everyone on how and how not to respond to these aggressions. Everyone needs to recognize these methods for what they are. Thanks to @moldovamatters.md for posting. www.moldovamatters.md/p/perspectiv...

The End of Democracy Has Already Begun In the first episode of our new podcast, a look at how lies prime a society for a fall

"In the first episode of our new podcast, a look at how lies prime a society for a fall...The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality."
By Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

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Erm thanks for quoting but I was never at RT.