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Web of deceit: disinformation could prove the most powerful weapon of all

3 August 2019

9:00 AM

3 August 2019

9:00 AM

We could begin almost anywhere. But let’s start in Ukraine, with Babar Aliev. Babar is a former gang leader who used social media disinformation campaigns to undermine a separatist movement. When his opponents won, he was picked up and put on a train out of town. His great disappointment, he tells Peter Pomerantsev in This is Not Propaganda, is that the separatists sent just three men for him.

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